From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:11:38 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] The French SOL Project In-Reply-To: <1513090350.694168.1202482048.331BA9BB@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1513090350.694168.1202482048.331BA9BB@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On 12 December 2017 at 09:52, Pierre Chapuis wrote: > SOL was a spin-off research project from a more famous French research > project called Cyclades, the first datagram network [1]. Knowing that I > would guess that the IP may be owned by INRIA. I was curious to see if Cyclades wound up in any of hte INRIA repos. No luck but I did find this curious repository: https://www.softwareheritage.org/ that may one day have it. N. > > Chorus Systems was a startup which was acquired by Sun in 1997, and the IP > belongs to Oracle. However version 5.0 was open sourced by Sun and forked > under the name Jaluna, apparently the sources can still be found at > SourceForge [2]. > > I couldn't find any sources for SOL, and I don't think it has ever been > completed. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES > [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/jaluna/files/Developer%20Edition/1.0/ > > -- > Pierre Chapuis > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017, at 15:18, Clem Cole wrote: > > In the early 1980s, a bunch of French researchers set out to build a clone > of UNIX/V7 in Pascal (using a ukernel IIRC). The project was the SOL > project [Gien, 1983]. I believe it eventually begat the Chorus system > (which was C++); which UI was going to use for System V/R5 before it all > blew up. > > 1) Does anyone know what happen to SOL? Was it finished, deployed, used > for anything? > > 2.) Did the sources and doc survive (and who owns the IP)? I think those > should be in the TUHS archives, as I think this was the first attempt at a > rewrite of UNIX in something other than C (or assembler). > > 3.) On a similar thought, did the Chorus code survive and who owns the IP? > > > Clem > > > > > > [Gien, 1983]“The SOL Operating System”, Michel Gien, USENIX Association, > 1983, Proceedings of the Summer ’83 USENIX Conference, Toronto, On, Canada, > July, 1983, Pages 75-78 > > >