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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] SunOS code?
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 04:40:49PM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 4:36 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > As Rob Gingell once said "Bits rot.  Unmaintained source quickly becomes
> > worthless".
> >
> Yep.   So the question goes back to what is SunOS 4.x.y.  You seem to be
> thinking in terms of looking at the kernel from those days (which is a fine
> definition), but others said - hey I want to run this on my X or Y system.
>  That's a different definition I think.

I suspect that if SunOS got any traction it would be the kernel plus
maybe their shared libs and the Linux user space.  And it would need to
be ported to x86_64.