From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: brantley@coraid.com (Brantley Coile) Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:32:12 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] How good a representative of System V is Solaris In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <895A6F41-039C-405D-AF14-7F3A3457D11E@coraid.com> Solaris is not pure System V. I started working on the internals of System V in 1985 and I have purchased a number of Solaris boxes in the 1990's and 2000's and while Solaris is based on the System V kernel, it doesn't feel like System V. Brantley On May 29, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 29 May 2009, at 13:12, A P Garcia wrote: > >> It sure looks like the Solaris 8 >> userland, at least, is almost pure System V. > > I don't think that follows from the copyright headers. Those can't be > removed unless there is (essentially) *nothing* remaining of the > original. > > Alternatively, you could say that, yes, it's a System V, but it's a > late 90s System V (and Solaris 10 is a 2005 System V). So it depends > on what you are after I guess: if you want to know what System V was > like in 1980-something then Solaris won't tell you that, any more than > OS X will tell you what 4.2 BSD was like. If you want to know what a > *modern* System V or BSD is like then, sure, look at Solaris or OS X. > > --tim > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >