Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:21:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: bright@www.hotjobs.com, poipoi@famipow.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris smp management Message-ID: <19980815132102.A21880@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808150345.WAA03794@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:45:39PM -0500 References: <19980814063439.175.qmail@hwi.poi.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980814122145.2111A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> <19980815123748.E21662@lemis.com> <199808150345.WAA03794@detlev.UUCP>
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On Friday, 14 August 1998 at 22:45:39 -0500, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: >>> 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. May be. But they introduced Solaris as a term which was much broader than SunOS, and they still use SunOS. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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