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From: chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Date: 24 Nov 1992 12:33:59 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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In article <id.S38V.GYG@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1ehqvhINNl3b@morrow.stanford.edu> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
>> Funny, I had thought that OSF/1 was based on Mach and the
>
>OSF/2 is to be based on Mach. OSF/1 is based on AIX, which is licensed from
>System V.

Chuck is right.  The OSF/1 kernel is based on Mach 2.5, with a lot of
code from BSD from 4.3-reno and later versions.  A lot of the user-level
code is taken from AIX.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu