[TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines

[clemc@ccc.com (Clem cole)]

Looks like apples mail screwed up the repl.   That was supported to be directed at Chet's comment about noting Jim Kulp great work implementing ITS style  job control that joy took into BSD 

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 

> On Jan 10, 2017, at 11:21 AM, Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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> Correct- that was the path as I know it.  i.e.  ITS gave Unix more and job control.  
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> Which is my point.    When some one starts pontificating about how SYS/BSD/Linux this that or the other thing - often the idea came elsewhere.   Wide distribution and use was supplied by the XXX Channel but there were many many fathers and mothers 
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> Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite. 
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>>> On Jan 10, 2017, at 10:42 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:47:28AM -0800, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Joerg Schilling <schily at schily.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Berny Goodheart <berny at berwynlodge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Here???s the breakdown of SVR4 kernel lineage as I recall it. I am pretty sure this is correct. But I am sure many of you will put me right if I am wrong ;)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From BSD:
>>>>>>> TCP/IP                        <=== NO, Svr4 uses a STREAMS based TCP/IP stack
>>>>> 
>>>>> svr4's stack is derived from BSD with a STREAMS packaging. These files
>>>>> were listed as "in AT&T's code w/o BSD headers" in the countersuit for
>>>>> the infamous AT&T lawsuit.
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, I think Convergent did the STREAMS packaging, then Lachman bought
>>>> the stack, I ported it twice (ETA & SCO), then I believe it was Bill
>>>> Coleman (not positive on the name, it was the VP of networking) at Sun
>>>> that bought rights to the stack from Lachman under pretty unfavorable
>>>> terms, then Sun got unhappy with the terms (and the performance),
>>>> contracted with Mentat to do a new stack and I think that stack is what
>>>> remains in Solaris.
>>> 
>>> I did some work on the Lachman stack for sysvr4 machines at Wollongong
>>> in 89 or so as well... It was very BSDish code that had been involved
>>> in a horrific traffic accident and rebuilt in a STREAMS framework. I'm
>>> not at all surprised that it didn't scale, because at the time it
>>> barely worked...
>> 
>> Yup, been there, lived that.  Until Mentat came along it was the only game
>> in town.  I don't normally tell people I'm the guy that gave SCO networking
>> because it "barely worked" as you say.
>> 
>> I did get SCO to ship sw (STREAMS watch) that was sort of like a top for
>> STREAMS - it was useful to run this while beating on the stack and then
>> go tune the internal limits for better performance.  I can't imagine
>> anyone wants this any more, or if it even runs, but it's my copyright
>> and I stuck a copy in http://mcvoy.com/lm/sw.shar
>>