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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Illumos )
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:36:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141231203617.GB3922@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2POf41Psp6gWdsX9a5PvYsMag-YBQLbawtbFaXpo0wG-A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:32:07PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for stressing the importance of Solaris as a Unix descendant for
> > which source code is available.
> >
> ???Amen???.   BTW:
> I really don't consider Solaris a pure System V either.

Nope, not by a long stretch.  System V had an awful VM / file system layer,
Solaris took the one from SunOS 4 and wedged it in there.

> Larry and his siblings hacked on it pretty heavily.

Not me, man.  I hated Solaris with a passion.  I liked SunOS 4.x, I hacked
the heck out of that.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-31 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-31  6:22 Larry McVoy
2014-12-31  9:28 ` Wesley Parish
2014-12-31 13:13   ` John Cowan
2014-12-31 17:42     ` Diomidis Spinellis
2014-12-31 20:32       ` Clem Cole
2014-12-31 20:36         ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2014-12-31 22:19           ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-31 22:42             ` Larry McVoy
2014-12-31 22:50               ` Larry McVoy
2015-01-01  1:17                 ` Larry McVoy
2015-01-01  1:34                   ` Erik E. Fair
2015-01-05 12:02               ` Tim Bradshaw
2015-01-05 17:04                 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-06  4:54                   ` Andy Kosela
2015-01-06 11:10                     ` Kurt H Maier
2015-01-06 15:37                   ` Tim Bradshaw
2015-01-09  9:23                     ` Jose R. Valverde
2015-01-06 21:58                   ` Clem Cole
2015-01-06 22:02                     ` [TUHS] pre-FSCK days Ronald Natalie
2015-01-07  1:53                     ` [TUHS] Illumos ) Dave Horsfall
2015-01-07 16:26                       ` Clem Cole
2015-01-07 18:32                         ` scj
2015-01-16  8:40                       ` [TUHS] sync; sync; sync; halt (was: Re: Illumos )) Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2015-01-16 13:39                         ` random832
2015-01-16 14:14                           ` Brantley Coile
2014-12-31  9:46 ` [TUHS] Illumos ) arnold

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