Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 20:09:53 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: Maslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com>, Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com>, Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion Message-ID: <20060501180953.GE19342@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <d6895b7d0605010709k1e2e3bb3i1774c103d2abcd57@mail.gmail.com> References: <18e02bd30604301409g2691e0cbvce0bbb8e5c5e56b2@mail.gmail.com> <20060430211517.GA11971@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200604302035.50870.slackwarewolf@comcast.net> <86mze2vx38.fsf@xps.des.no> <319cceca0605010623k5bb62479r1ceec72e55b5eca9@mail.gmail.com> <F68C64C6-937F-4208-BE91-6996621A86A7@foolishgames.com> <d6895b7d0605010709k1e2e3bb3i1774c103d2abcd57@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:09:36AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote.. > On 5/1/06, Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> wrote: > > > >On May 1, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Maslan wrote: > >> > >> That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd. > >> www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos > > >Sun OS is how I got into BSD. My first sparc had sunos 4.21 on it. > >It was definitely BSD. It makes sense considering Bill Joy co- > >founded sun. I ended up putting NetBSD on that sparc and later found > >FreeBSD. > > SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.?(1 maybe? It's been a long time now.)) > was the final release of SunOS 4. It was basically 4.1.3_U1 with a > couple of other minor fixes merged in. I spent a very long time > porting software from SunOS 4 to Solaris 2.3|4|5 during that time as > we transitioned from our older Sun4c|m based servers and hosts to > Sun4u (which of course only ran Solaris 2.5 and beyond (or Solaris 4 2.5 on the sun4u? Wasn't that 2.5.1 minimum? -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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