From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 1 18:10:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C381516A448 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 18:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA0F43D73 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 18:10:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k41I9skL002401; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:09:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k41I9reT019549; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:09:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k41I9rjK019548; Mon, 1 May 2006 20:09:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wb) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:09:53 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jamie Bowden Message-ID: <20060501180953.GE19342@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <20060430211517.GA11971@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200604302035.50870.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> <86mze2vx38.fsf@xps.des.no> <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Maslan , Lucas Holt , Allen , Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 18:10:15 -0000 On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:09:36AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote.. > On 5/1/06, Lucas Holt wrote: > > > >On May 1, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Maslan wrote: > >> > >> That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd. > >> www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos > > >Sun OS is how I got into BSD. My first sparc had sunos 4.21 on it. > >It was definitely BSD. It makes sense considering Bill Joy co- > >founded sun. I ended up putting NetBSD on that sparc and later found > >FreeBSD. > > SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.?(1 maybe? It's been a long time now.)) > was the final release of SunOS 4. It was basically 4.1.3_U1 with a > couple of other minor fixes merged in. I spent a very long time > porting software from SunOS 4 to Solaris 2.3|4|5 during that time as > we transitioned from our older Sun4c|m based servers and hosts to > Sun4u (which of course only ran Solaris 2.5 and beyond (or Solaris 4 2.5 on the sun4u? Wasn't that 2.5.1 minimum? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org