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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I have worked on the SVR4 codebase, and there isn't much
> to be learned there.   The Solaris stuff would be a little
> bit more interesting. :-).

	Solaris source is also available for interested, isn't it?

	On UW. Solaris is SVR4.0 heavily modified by Sun,
	with SMP added by them independently; UW is SVR4.2 with
	SMP added by USL, am I right?  So they might have
	some (in theory, at least) interesting differences with regard to
	SMP implementation?

	Then VXFS; binary compatibility stuff; drivers.
	
	SCO is dropping old SCO OpenServer aka SVR3,
	in favor of SVR4.2MP-based system, I think; for now it's UW.
	And they have some kind of "unified driver interface" spec for UW.
	How nice would it be -- to have an ability to use hardware
	vendor's own drivers for UW, compatible with that spec,
	just out of the box.  Aaghh, dreams, dreams... :(

> John
> 

Best regards,
Andrew Stesin

nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE