12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
8:52 p.m.
SOL was a spin-off research project from a more famous French research
project called Cyclades, the first datagram network [1]. Knowing that I
would guess that the IP may be owned by INRIA.
Chorus Systems was a startup which was acquired by Sun in 1997, and the
IP belongs to Oracle. However version 5.0 was open sourced by Sun and
forked under the name Jaluna, apparently the sources can still be found
at SourceForge [2].
I couldn't find any sources for SOL, and I don't think it has ever been
completed.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYCLADES
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/jaluna/files/Developer%20Edition/1.0/
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Pierre Chapuis
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017, at 15:18, Clem Cole wrote:
In the early 1980s, a bunch of French researchers set
out to build a
clone of UNIX/V7 in Pascal (using a ukernel IIRC). The project was
the SOL project [Gien, 1983]. I believe it eventually begat the
Chorus system (which was C++); which UI was going to use for System
V/R5 before it all blew up.>
1) Does anyone know what happen to SOL? Was it finished, deployed,
used for anything?>
2.) Did the sources and doc survive (and who owns the IP)? I think
those should be in the TUHS archives, as I think this was the first
attempt at a rewrite of UNIX in something other than C (or
assembler).>
3.) On a similar thought, did the Chorus code survive and who owns
the IP?>
Clem
[Gien, 1983]*“The SOL Operating System*”, Michel Gien, USENIX
Association, 1983, Proceedings of the Summer ’83 USENIX Conference,
Toronto, On, Canada, July, 1983, Pages 75-78>