From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 19:55:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrTE9JXzgMnS2aF09bCvh77yePGvCQU0OYpBcfqYjTJzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104031247300.23232@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 7:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > SunOS 4, though I love it more than most people, is ancient history and
> > is basically under one big lock for SMP. It was a huge amount of work
> > to get that code to scale in Solaris (they lifted the VM system and the
> > hat layer from SunOS 4 to 5 and then went to work).
>
> SunOS 4.1 was the best *ix I have ever used (and I've used lots over the
> decades); then Slowaris came along and trashed the joint because the suits
> were in charge instead of the real workers.
>
> We never had a need for SMP, so we didn't miss it.
>
OS/MP from Solbourne gave you both: SMP and SonOS 4.1.x.
Warner
>
> -- Dave
>
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Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-01 14:50 Josh Good
2021-04-01 15:12 ` Warner Losh
2021-04-01 15:27 ` Josh Good
2021-04-01 15:33 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-01 16:14 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-04-01 16:26 ` John Cowan
2021-04-01 17:54 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-04-01 16:27 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-04-02 2:16 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-04-02 3:52 ` Wesley Parish
2021-04-02 5:26 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-04-02 16:03 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-02 16:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-02 16:39 ` Heinz Lycklama
2021-04-02 17:14 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-02 17:17 ` [TUHS] AIX repeat [was " Charles H Sauer
2021-04-03 1:24 ` [TUHS] " Wesley Parish
2021-04-04 2:46 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-04 2:50 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-04 5:29 ` [TUHS] How to Kill a Technical Conference (was: Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM) G. Branden Robinson
2021-04-04 18:22 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-04 20:54 ` Richard Salz
2021-04-04 21:11 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-05 0:36 ` John Cowan
2021-04-05 2:19 ` Warner Losh
2021-04-05 18:07 ` [TUHS] How to Kill a Technical Conference John Gilmore
2021-04-05 19:30 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-05 20:34 ` Richard Salz
2021-04-05 20:42 ` William Cheswick
2021-04-06 4:37 ` Ed Bradford
2021-04-05 20:39 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-05 21:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-05 21:17 ` Dan Cross
2021-04-06 15:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-06 5:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-05 7:48 ` [TUHS] Whither Usenix [was How To Kill A Technical Conference] arnold
2021-04-05 14:05 ` [TUHS] How to Kill a Technical Conference (was: Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM) Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-05 22:26 ` David Arnold
2021-04-04 23:30 ` A. P. Garcia
2021-04-04 3:41 ` [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM Gregg Levine
2021-04-04 3:57 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-02 5:41 ` David Arnold
2021-04-02 6:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-04-02 7:00 ` arnold
2021-04-02 9:53 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-04-02 10:26 ` arnold
2021-04-02 14:02 ` Josh Good
2021-04-02 14:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-04-02 15:16 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-02 15:28 ` Fabio Scotoni
2021-04-03 1:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-03 1:55 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-04-03 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-03 2:34 ` Earl Baugh
2021-04-03 6:16 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-04-04 16:18 ` Tony Finch
2021-04-04 1:48 ` David Arnold
2021-04-04 2:23 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-04 8:55 ` Josh Good
2021-04-04 14:43 ` Michael Parson
2021-04-04 15:36 ` Warner Losh
2021-04-04 16:15 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-04 22:25 ` David Arnold
2021-04-04 22:55 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-05 2:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-04 23:00 ` Bakul Shah
2021-04-04 23:33 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-05 1:34 ` Bakul Shah
2021-04-05 2:58 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2021-04-05 12:35 ` John Cowan
2021-04-05 20:44 ` Kevin Bowling
2021-04-04 23:34 ` Josh Good
2021-04-04 20:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-04-04 21:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-04 21:40 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-04 21:54 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-04-04 22:02 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-04-04 21:58 ` Clem Cole
2021-04-04 23:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-04-04 23:53 ` Larry McVoy
2021-04-07 5:15 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-04-05 13:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-07 1:52 ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-02 15:25 ` Josh Good
2021-04-03 3:10 ` John Cowan
2021-04-02 16:40 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
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