Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 20:58:59 -0500 From: Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> To: Nick Downing <downing.nick(a)gmail.com> Cc: Jason Stevens <jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com>, "tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other Message-ID: <CAC20D2NM_oyDz0tAM2o5_vJ8Ky_3fHoAmPHn8+DOqNwKoMyqfQ(a)mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Nick Downing <downing.nick(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Anyway, Tru64 is based on OSF/1 but also has a lot of DEC proprietary things (like TruClusters and anything Alpha specific) that goes beyond the based OSF license, so you need the HP clearance before any of that can be made available [same is true for HP/UX of course]. To my knowledge, DEC/Compaq/HP never released the sources to Tru64 (or HP/UX) to the world they way Sun did for Solaris, which in the case of Tru64 is sort of shame. there is some every good stuff in there like the file systems, the lock managers, cluster scaling, messaging, etc - which would be nice to compare to today's solutions. Since HP did have a bought out AT&T license, that clearly could have done so, but I do not think anyone left there to make that decision - sigh.