From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 20:48:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10534 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10513 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-114.camalott.com [208.229.74.114]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA20472; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:48:17 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA03794; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:45:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 22:45:39 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808150345.WAA03794@detlev.UUCP> To: grog@lemis.com CC: bright@www.hotjobs.com, poipoi@famipow.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980815123748.E21662@lemis.com> (message from Greg Lehey on Sat, 15 Aug 1998 12:37:48 +0930) Subject: Re: solaris smp management From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <19980814063439.175.qmail@hwi.poi.org> <19980815123748.E21662@lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> it isn't an "algorithm" rather a total restructuring of the kernel. >> freebsd wouldn't be "BSD" anymore if it adopted the same path as sun. >> that's why there is no more "sunos" just solaris, sunos was a BSD >> kernel, while solaris was a resturctured blend of BSD and SRV4. > Well, not quite. SunOS 1 to 4 were a BSD kernel, SunOS 5 is an SVR4 > kernel. Solaris 1 includes SunOS4, and Solaris 2 includes SunOS 5. I thought that the name "Solaris 1" was a retcon. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message