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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:576 comp.unix.bsd:8108 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!odin!chet 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) Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <1et7fnINN6nr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <1egusmINNtu@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz> <1ehqvhINNl3b@morrow.stanford.edu> <id.S38V.GYG@ferranti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ins.cwru.edu 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 -- ``The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.'' -- Arthur Schlesinger Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu