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From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 6, Issue 7
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:09:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031112020925.GF3886@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031112020007.248411FD1@minnie.tuhs.org>

> > I've personally thought that Sun should release the source trees of its old 
> > BSD-based SunOS with the idea of getting back onside with all the Linux and 
> > Unix people it pissed off by its "buying" a "Unix" license from SCO, the 
> > Societe Commercial du On-Dit, the Commercial Society of Rumourmongers.
> 
> Don't hold your breath. Even SunOS 4.1.x had large chunks of System V Release 3
> code in it: all the STREAMS stuff and RFS worked in that environment (not that
> anyone ever used it).  Also all of /usr/5bin, /usr/5lib etc.

I removed all that stuff and booted up and ran on a complete free version of
SunOS long ago.  Read about it here:

http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm


       reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20031112020007.248411FD1@minnie.tuhs.org>
2003-11-12  2:09 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2003-11-12  8:04   ` Wesley Parish
2003-11-12  3:08 ` Larry McVoy

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