3 Apr
2021
3 Apr
'21
7:55 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 7:51 PM Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Apr 2021, Larry McVoy wrote:
OS/MP from Solbourne gave you both: SMP and SonOS 4.1.x.
Warner
SunOS 4, though I love it more than most people,
is ancient history and
is basically under one big lock for SMP. It was a huge amount of work
to get that code to scale in Solaris (they lifted the VM system and the
hat layer from SunOS 4 to 5 and then went to work).
SunOS 4.1 was the best *ix I have ever used (and I've used lots over the
decades); then Slowaris came along and trashed the joint because the suits
were in charge instead of the real workers.
We never had a need for SMP, so we didn't miss it.
-- Dave