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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:36:17 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] Illumos )
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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.