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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
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