Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 00:38:27 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RE: AIX going BSD Message-ID: <19990401003827.B58251@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903310910360.3363-100000@feral-gw>; from Matthew Jacob on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 09:13:52AM -0800 References: <199903311657.IAA00627@walker3.apple.com> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903310910360.3363-100000@feral-gw>
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[ reply-to chat ] According to Matthew Jacob: > BSD 4.3 -> SunOS 4.0 Nope, 4.2BSD (as seen in the default broadcast addr is <network>.0) with some 4.3 stuff. > SunOS 4.X stuff (vnode/specfs) -> BSD 4.4 Not really IMO. They got a unified VM & some stacking FS stuff but it wasn't from 4.4. > SunOS 4.X stuff -> AT&T SVr4 merges in (VM and Specfs stuff) Not really, just incorporating some SVR3 features in SunOS. SRV4.0 is SunOS (mostly VM stuff & UFS) + Xenix + SVR3. > SVr4 -> (incoming! Aiee!) -> Solaris (SunOS 5.X).... Sun brought (not licensed !) SVR4.0 code from AT&T (probably Univel or Novell at the time) and derived Solaris from it. That's why it never used any SVR4.2 (like Unixware) features and they "rediscovered" old 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD bugs in Solaris in addition to their own ones (remember the big gethostbyname(3) brokenness in Solaris 2.2 & 2.3 ?). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #70: Sat Feb 27 09:43:08 CET 1999 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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