From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 14 20:52:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11026 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11021 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA19220; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:21:01 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA21885; Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:21:02 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980815132102.A21880@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 13:21:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: bright@www.hotjobs.com, poipoi@famipow.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris smp management References: <19980814063439.175.qmail@hwi.poi.org> <19980815123748.E21662@lemis.com> <199808150345.WAA03794@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808150345.WAA03794@detlev.UUCP>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:45:39PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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