From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:22:46 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources In-Reply-To: References: <1310380205.2145.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1310457285.4e1bfdc575d76@www.paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: 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.