29 Aug
2018
29 Aug
'18
11:29 a.m.
Changed the subject line.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
So I'd go with MacOS is not a fun kernel.
It's pretty close to BSD
and I recently wandered through that VM system and I was not impressed.
I wish like hell that Sun had fed their VM back to BSD. Yeah, it wasn't
multi processor friendly but someone would have fixed that.
The penguin stuff, it's OK. Not as clean as SunOS by a long shot.
So, is the SunOS code available in a way that would let people hack
on it? They had ported it to 386 (roadrunner?), so maybe it'd be
possible to revive it and bring it into the 21st century.
Just a thought,
Arnold