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From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:22:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ED332722-0FCC-4FC7-9CF0-A49DE67FA597@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH1jEzYjsCrJP11B5JjxY0YhPmr6HRKtHDL4Te7NdFEnYRgmMg@mail.gmail.com>

On 12 Jul 2011, at 10:57, Nick Downing wrote:

> Also as I understand it, SunOS was a BSD which had heaps of
> development and original ideas put into it (shared libraries I think
> is one example), but was discarded as a political decision because
> AT&T had managed to convince most corporate customers that BSD was
> merely a hack and SysV was the "real unix", so Sun decided to create
> Solaris instead by licensing SysV as a starting point, I may have
> things slightly backward so I would appreciate if anyone can confirm
> this?

I think that's basically correct, although in some technical sense "SunOS" is still the name for the OS component of Solaris (or was until recently - Oracle have probably renamed it), so you probably mean "SunOS n" where n<=4.

I think (though I am not sure) that a lot of the virtual memory and shared library stuff which originated in SunOS 4 moved wholesale into SunOS 5, as well.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 10:29 Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 12:42 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-07-11 12:53   ` Jim Capp
2011-07-14 17:42     ` Al Kossow
2011-07-14 17:46       ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-15  4:10         ` Random832
2011-07-15  4:22           ` John Cowan
2011-07-12  7:54   ` Wesley Parish
2011-07-12  9:53     ` Nick Downing
2011-07-19 23:17       ` Doug McIntyre
2011-07-20  0:42         ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-20  3:16         ` John Cowan
2011-07-20  4:04           ` Warner Losh
2011-07-12  9:57     ` Nick Downing
2011-07-12 11:22       ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2011-07-12 11:54         ` Nick Downing
2011-07-11 12:50 ` Sergio Aguayo
     [not found] ` <4E1B6A45.40607@laposte.net>
2011-07-11 19:50   ` Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 21:56     ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-11 20:08       ` Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 22:56         ` Warren Toomey
2011-07-12 13:04       ` Milo Velimirović
2011-07-12 13:07         ` Jason Stevens
     [not found] <1310385759.2145.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2011-07-11 14:09 ` Sergio Aguayo
2011-07-12 13:24 Norman Wilson
2011-07-12 15:11 Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-12 23:26 ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-13  0:23   ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-13 13:25     ` Arno Griffioen
2011-07-13  2:48   ` John Cowan
2011-07-13  3:07     ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-14 17:37   ` Al Kossow
2011-07-15  4:30 ` Warren Toomey

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