[TUHS] SunOS code?

[David Arnold]

> On 30 Aug 2018, at 00:43, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:29 PM <arnold at skeeve.com <mailto:arnold at skeeve.com>> wrote:
> Changed the subject line.
> 
> Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com <mailto: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.
> 
> The Googles tells me there's a dozen download places.

I found both 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.2) and 4.1.3 (which still has the m68k, sun2, and sun3 bits in it).

It’d be quite fun to walk through Bill & Lynne Jolitz’ Dr Dobbs 386BSD articles but with one of these as the starting point.




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