[TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources

[wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish)]

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For what it's worth, if I remember correctly, 4.3BSD was one of the major
contributions to SVR4. I suspect that if it hadn't been, nobody would've bought it.

From what I've read, people bought SVRx for the source code license, and then
bought the 4.xBSD for the reliability and usability.

And yes, it would be nice if the entire SysVRx source trees were released under
a suitable FOSS license; but I think the usefulness of such a gesture would be
in stymieing any future "The SCO Group" shenanigans, and I don't know that such
acts of self-preservation are quite the flavour of the month with modern
software companies.

Wesley Parish

Quoting Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Michele Ghisolfo <ghisolfo.m at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  I'm currently reading J. Lion's commentary of Unix Code Level Six.
>  It
> > is the most useful commentary to operating system kernel I have ever
> > read.
> >
> >  It would be really useful to also have the source code of SVR4
> kernel
> > for Intel x86.  Does anyone have that?
> >
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> OpenSolaris is derived from SVR4 and much of the userland stuff is
> still quite similar to the original release. Sadly, System V as a
> whole is still regarded as a commercial product and no source is
> available. If you want the source code for a decent early-90s Unix
> implementation, I'd take a look at 4.4BSD. It's not SVR4, but it's
> from the same era and has many of the same abilities.
> 
> Mike
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