From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SunOS code?
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:41:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W54FizcyVwCsJTMC1zc=c-BhRzr94HwXKJMQtR-dO9qxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180829144037.GO317@mcvoy.com>
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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 <lm@mcvoy.com> 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 <lm@mcvoy.com> 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
>
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Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-24 15:13 [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Seth Morabito
2018-08-24 15:23 ` William Cheswick
2018-08-24 16:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-24 16:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-24 17:54 ` Jon Forrest
2018-08-26 2:22 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-27 15:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2018-08-27 17:06 ` Seth Morabito
2018-08-27 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-27 19:59 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-27 20:27 ` Brad Spencer
2018-08-28 0:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-28 0:30 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-28 6:01 ` arnold
2018-08-28 6:11 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-28 6:42 ` arnold
2018-08-28 13:13 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-08-28 22:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 5:25 ` arnold
2018-08-28 22:33 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 0:36 ` Harald Arnesen
2018-08-29 0:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 5:29 ` [TUHS] SunOS code? arnold
2018-08-29 14:40 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 14:41 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2018-08-29 14:44 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 14:46 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-29 14:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:45 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 11:43 ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 13:50 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 14:32 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-04 9:39 ` Andy Kosela
2018-09-01 15:01 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 15:20 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-01 18:24 ` Steve Mynott
2018-09-01 18:38 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 23:09 ` David Arnold
2018-08-29 1:06 ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 3:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 4:36 ` [TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands Warren Toomey
2018-08-29 16:13 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-08-29 22:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 22:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 22:21 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 23:04 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-29 23:38 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 3:59 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 22:31 ` Dan Mick
2018-08-29 23:00 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-08-30 8:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-30 11:06 ` ron
2018-08-30 11:35 ` John P. Linderman
2018-08-30 13:24 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 14:31 ` William Pechter
2018-08-30 15:01 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 15:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 16:11 ` William Pechter
2018-08-29 5:06 ` [TUHS] Research UNIX on the AT&T 3B2? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-29 14:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-29 14:41 ` Dan Cross
2018-08-29 14:50 ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 14:59 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-29 15:08 ` Chet Ramey
2018-08-29 17:14 ` Arno Griffioen
2018-08-29 23:23 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-30 3:03 ` Gregg Levine
2018-08-29 17:28 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-08-30 5:58 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-08-30 13:14 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-29 8:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-29 7:03 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2018-08-28 1:14 ` Warren Toomey
2018-08-28 17:47 ` Paul Winalski
2018-08-26 8:48 ` arnold
2018-08-30 19:41 [TUHS] SunOS code? Noel Chiappa
2018-08-30 19:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 20:04 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 20:22 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 20:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 20:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 20:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 20:43 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 20:38 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-30 20:42 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-30 20:43 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-30 20:37 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-31 5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-08-31 9:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-31 11:01 ` Gregg Levine
2018-08-31 11:05 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-08-30 19:54 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-30 20:05 ` Earl Baugh
2018-08-30 21:34 Noel Chiappa
2018-08-31 1:59 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-31 21:34 ` Cág
2018-08-31 21:39 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-31 21:47 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-08-31 21:57 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-31 21:58 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-31 22:02 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-31 22:19 ` Cág
2018-08-31 22:23 ` Jon Forrest
2018-08-31 22:30 ` Cág
2018-08-31 22:34 ` Jon Forrest
2018-09-01 10:46 ` Donald ODona
2018-08-31 22:20 ` Cág
2018-08-31 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-01 1:57 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 3:23 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-01 16:29 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-09-01 16:35 ` Larry McVoy
2018-09-01 19:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-09-01 16:27 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-09-01 17:17 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-01 22:19 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-02 5:05 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-09-02 19:43 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-04 11:47 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-09-04 17:39 ` Gilles Gravier
2018-09-04 17:45 ` Henry Bent
2018-09-05 6:31 ` Gilles Gravier
2018-09-05 12:55 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-05 15:26 ` Warner Losh
2018-09-05 15:36 ` Chet Ramey
2018-09-05 15:43 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-09-05 23:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-09-05 0:10 ` Tony Finch
2018-09-04 17:58 Noel Chiappa
2018-09-06 0:39 ` Dave Horsfall
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