Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 00:20:07 +0300 (EEST) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SVR4.2MP source code has become available recently? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726001142.1361D-100000@trifork.gu.net> In-Reply-To: <199707252105.QAA00944@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > I have worked on the SVR4 codebase, and there isn't much > to be learned there. The Solaris stuff would be a little > bit more interesting. :-). Solaris source is also available for interested, isn't it? On UW. Solaris is SVR4.0 heavily modified by Sun, with SMP added by them independently; UW is SVR4.2 with SMP added by USL, am I right? So they might have some (in theory, at least) interesting differences with regard to SMP implementation? Then VXFS; binary compatibility stuff; drivers. SCO is dropping old SCO OpenServer aka SVR3, in favor of SVR4.2MP-based system, I think; for now it's UW. And they have some kind of "unified driver interface" spec for UW. How nice would it be -- to have an ability to use hardware vendor's own drivers for UW, compatible with that spec, just out of the box. Aaghh, dreams, dreams... :( > John > Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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