12 Sep
2019
12 Sep
'19
3:57 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 2:54 PM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> 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.
But Sun would have to accept the economics of Intel processor sooner.
Which is funny because RoadRunner was a pretty neat machine. They had
Solaris/386 but was way too little too late. Sparc was a blind spot I
fear.
Sort of obvious in retrospect. Nobody, that I know of, considered it at the
time.
Maybe -- as I said, i386 would have been the key.
I proposed open sourcing it.
I agree, that might have worked. And then if they wanted to be in the HW
biz, let the FOSS world deal with Intel.