12 Sep
2019
12 Sep
'19
12:54 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 02:18:08PM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
You're probably right but it wouldn't have mattered. SunOS was very popular
and had a good VM system with a working mmap. Once it became official
AT&T source everyone would have moved to it over time.
Sort of obvious in retrospect. Nobody, that I know of, considered it at
the time. I proposed open sourcing it.
It would have been
much better if Sun had licensed their source base to AT&T and then
AT&T could have leveraged the industry standard.
Interesting to speculate if that would have sped up the creation of OSF or
delayed/prevented it. I think the former.