I wonder if they would consider doing it now. Oracle,
I mean; the Solaris
code was opened up and an argument could be made that SunOS would be useful
for historical examination.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Sun never open sourced it.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 11:29:15PM -0600, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
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
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