[TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources

Jim Capp jcapp at anteil.com
Mon Jul 11 22:53:02 AEST 2011


Michele,

Some time ago, SCO made its source code available under an "Ancient UNIX" license.  That is also very close to SVR4.  I don't have the details at hand, but perhaps someone on this list does.

Is there a reason you need to see the source code specifically for SVR4?

Cheers,

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kerpan" <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com>
To: "Michele Ghisolfo" <ghisolfo.m at gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 8:42:45 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Michele Ghisolfo <ghisolfo.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I'm currently reading J. Lion's commentary of Unix Code Level Six.  It
> is the most useful commentary to operating system kernel I have ever
> read.
>
>  It would be really useful to also have the source code of SVR4 kernel
> for Intel x86.  Does anyone have that?
>
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OpenSolaris is derived from SVR4 and much of the userland stuff is
still quite similar to the original release. Sadly, System V as a
whole is still regarded as a commercial product and no source is
available. If you want the source code for a decent early-90s Unix
implementation, I'd take a look at 4.4BSD. It's not SVR4, but it's
from the same era and has many of the same abilities.

Mike
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