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From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 09:48:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170109174844.GD3143@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <587392b8.YVBYtdtMbIwoTw24%schily@schily.net>

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 02:40:08PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > The VM system was ported from SunOS 4.x to System 5.  Your statements that
> > SVr4 is based on SunOS are flat out wrong.  SVr4 got a lot of SunOS goodness
> > but the starting point was ATT System V.
> 
> This looks like a response made from gut.

Oh, brother.  Let it go.  I talked to the guy who did the bringup, did I 
not post that?  It starts "SVr4 was not based on SunOS, although it incorporated
many of the best features of SunOS 4.x".

I'm dealing with trees down and landslides, I'll post the rest later, but
Joerg you are just wrong about this.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-09 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-04  2:41 Larry McVoy
2017-01-04  3:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04  3:23   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04  3:35     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 12:24       ` Ed Carp
2017-01-04 16:17       ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:31         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:34           ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:57             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:06               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:11                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:15                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:40                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:42                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:48                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:57                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:24                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:30                               ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:25                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:32                           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:46                             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-05 11:18                               ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:09                                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-06  3:07                                   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-06 17:38                                   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 17:36               ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 17:41                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:46           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:02             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:10               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:52                   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:23                     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:27                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:29                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:44                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 11:50                         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06  2:02                           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-09 13:40                             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-09 17:48                               ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-01-10  3:58                               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10  4:16                                 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-08  1:37                       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  2:26                 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-04 18:56       ` Nevin Liber
2017-01-04 19:05         ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 20:00         ` Clem Cole
2017-01-04 21:20         ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-04 21:57           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  0:36       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-05  0:43         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  0:50           ` William Pechter
2017-01-05  1:01             ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  3:00               ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-05  3:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05  8:12                   ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-05 16:23                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 16:31                       ` Clem Cole
2017-01-10 15:12 Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:03 ` arnold
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 16:24   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:32     ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:40       ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:41       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 16:38     ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:57   ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 17:10     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 17:47   ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:28     ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 18:33       ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:42         ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 19:21           ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 19:41             ` Clem cole
2017-01-11 21:03             ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 20:56   ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 22:57     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:06       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 23:52         ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:57           ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12  0:07             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-12  1:58               ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12 10:39                 ` Joerg Schilling
     [not found] ` <1154c8d8-2051-455e-a3f2-45415d901232.maildroid@localhost>
2017-01-10 16:34   ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 15:38 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-10 21:26 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 19:37 ` Charles Anthony

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