4 Mar
2017
4 Mar
'17
12:12 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 03:28:27PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
The question is what happens to the code that got from
AT&T but did not
use. I'm going to be hypothetical here, Larry correct me to the specifics
please as I never saw Solaris sources, but SVR4 had Streams Networking in
it. Let's say the Solaris pulled that out like we did at Stellar with
SVR3 and put a BBN or BSD style stack back in and never shipped the streams
code. The Network stack they did publish would be available, but what
about the AT&T version?
I can't speak to the legal stuff but Solaris shipped with
Convergent/Lachman's TCP/IP stack. Briefly if at all. Then Mentat was
contracted to do a higher performance TCP/IP which was a bloody mess if
I recall correctly. Full of "fast paths" that worked around the STREAMS
shortcomings.
Sun would have been far far better off doing what you did at Stellar.