From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 19:29:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance? In-Reply-To: <1488585378.58ba02a237271@www.paradise.net.nz> References: <20170303200612.6525F18C08C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <1488585378.58ba02a237271@www.paradise.net.nz> Message-ID: On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Wesley Parish wrote: > And since the central Unix source trees have been static - I don't think > Novell was much more than a caretaker, correct me if I'm wrong - and the > last SysVR4 release of any consequence was Solaris - has Oracle done > anything with it? - I think the best thing for all would be the release > of the Unix SysV source trees under a suitable open source license. > (I've made a similar argument for the IBM/MS OS/2, DEC VAX VMS, and MS > Windows and WinNT 3.x and 4.x source trees on various other Internet > forums: the horse has bolted, it's a bit pointless welding shut the barn > door now. Better to get the credit for being friendly and open, and > clear up some residual bugs while you're at it ... ) I agree pretty much across the board. To be fair, I'd like to start from SysV and create a traditional implementation of that for my own personal neckbeard use, but using a kernel, such as Linux, that has decent modern hardware support. And I've tried doing that, I'm just lost as to where to begin. ;) -uso.