[TUHS] Illumos )

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Jan 1 06:36:17 AEST 2015


On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 03:32:07PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Diomidis Spinellis <dds at aueb.gr> wrote:
> 
> > Thank you for stressing the importance of Solaris as a Unix descendant for
> > which source code is available.
> >
> ???Amen???.   BTW:
> I really don't consider Solaris a pure System V either.

Nope, not by a long stretch.  System V had an awful VM / file system layer,
Solaris took the one from SunOS 4 and wedged it in there.

> Larry and his siblings hacked on it pretty heavily.

Not me, man.  I hated Solaris with a passion.  I liked SunOS 4.x, I hacked
the heck out of that.



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