[TUHS] SunOS code?

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Thu Aug 30 00:40:37 AEST 2018


Sun never open sourced it.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:29:15PM -0600, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> Changed the subject line.
> 
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> > So I'd go with MacOS is not a fun kernel.  It's pretty close to BSD
> > and I recently wandered through that VM system and I was not impressed.
> > I wish like hell that Sun had fed their VM back to BSD.  Yeah, it wasn't
> > multi processor friendly but someone would have fixed that.
> >
> > The penguin stuff, it's OK.  Not as clean as SunOS by a long shot.
> 
> So, is the SunOS code available in a way that would let people hack
> on it? They had ported it to 386 (roadrunner?), so maybe it'd be
> possible to revive it and bring it into the 21st century.
> 
> Just a thought,
> 
> Arnold

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