Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 14:49:09 +1000 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is BSD Message-ID: <200105080449.OAA03011@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com> of "Mon, 07 May 2001 23:52:48 -0400." <20010507235247.A519@widomaker.com>
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shannon@widomaker.com said: > I didn't know that SVR4 was a merge of SVR3.2 and SunOS 4. I would > think that SunOS 4's box should be pretty much a dead-end. As I understand it, SVR4 was meant to be a merging of SVR3 and BSD 4.3. AT&T got Sun to do the work, so I could easily believe that Sun used their code base from SunOS 4 (which was their BSD 4.3 implementation). In fact, I heard rumours that there were comments in the SVR4 code from Sun that said things like "Why did we ever let AT&T talk us into doing things this way..." I think it's also interesting to note how long it took Sun to release their SVR4 implementation after other companies did, which suggests to me that they weren't particularly happy with what they'd done... Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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