[TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines

[lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:47:28AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net> wrote:
> > Berny Goodheart <berny at berwynlodge.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Here???s the breakdown of SVR4 kernel lineage as I recall it. I am pretty sure this is correct. But I am sure many of you will put me right if I am wrong ;)
> >>
> >> From BSD:
> >> TCP/IP                        <=== NO, Svr4 uses a STREAMS based TCP/IP stack
> 
> svr4's stack is derived from BSD with a STREAMS packaging. These files
> were listed as "in AT&T's code w/o BSD headers" in the countersuit for
> the infamous AT&T lawsuit.

Yeah, I think Convergent did the STREAMS packaging, then Lachman bought
the stack, I ported it twice (ETA & SCO), then I believe it was Bill
Coleman (not positive on the name, it was the VP of networking) at Sun
that bought rights to the stack from Lachman under pretty unfavorable
terms, then Sun got unhappy with the terms (and the performance),
contracted with Mentat to do a new stack and I think that stack is what
remains in Solaris.