The problem is finding some at Oracle that would care and finding a proper distribution tape to officially release. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:42 AM Dan Cross wrote: > I wonder if they would consider doing it now. Oracle, I mean; the Solaris > code was opened up and an argument could be made that SunOS would be useful > for historical examination. > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM Larry McVoy wrote: > >> Sun never open sourced it. >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:29:15PM -0600, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: >> > Changed the subject line. >> > >> > Larry McVoy wrote: >> > >> > > So I'd go with MacOS is not a fun kernel. It's pretty close to BSD >> > > and I recently wandered through that VM system and I was not >> impressed. >> > > I wish like hell that Sun had fed their VM back to BSD. Yeah, it >> wasn't >> > > multi processor friendly but someone would have fixed that. >> > > >> > > The penguin stuff, it's OK. Not as clean as SunOS by a long shot. >> > >> > So, is the SunOS code available in a way that would let people hack >> > on it? They had ported it to 386 (roadrunner?), so maybe it'd be >> > possible to revive it and bring it into the 21st century. >> > >> > Just a thought, >> > >> > Arnold >> >> -- >> --- >> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com >> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm >> >