16 Mar
2023
16 Mar
'23
3:56 a.m.
On 16 Mar 2023, at 08:22, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
Is there any market for System V at this point? I would think it's
Windows, MacOS, Linux and anything else is an also ran at this point.
Is this the right question, treating System V as commercial?
"What “uses” would SysV codebase have now?" may be a better Q.
Minor commercial use, restricted to old hardware.
A platform for research and hobbyist non-commercial use.
And for the intellectually curious,
to document the evolution of the codebase through time.
[ for ‘completeness’ of the git repo ]
At best, academically it might enable a comparative code course
and some PhD’s.
I think it’d be quite some legacy to leave a complete tree
of the evolution of Unix, from the earliest versions,
out to the end.
But having corporates give up any “Intellectual Property”
isn’t likely. Not until a bunch of people have died :)
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