Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: stesin@gu.net Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? Message-ID: <199707252150.OAA02176@exit.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726001142.1361D-100000@trifork.gu.net> from Andrew Stesin at "Jul 26, 97 00:20:07 am"
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Andrew Stesin wrote: > 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? Uh huh. Lots of good stuff there, even if only for an example of another way to do things. I personally prefer its SMP locking, but then I'm biased, having used it for a few years. > Then VXFS; binary compatibility stuff; drivers. I doubt that it includes vxfs, that's Veritas' baby, and a separate thing. I could be wrong, though. > 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... :( Unixware is basically heavily bug-fixed and enhanced SVR4.2ES/MP. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com
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