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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:612 comp.unix.bsd:8266 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!ditsydh.syd.dit.CSIRO.AU!degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au!ip_boss From: ip_boss@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au (Jack Churchill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <1992Nov28.110233.175@degsyd.syd.deg.csiro.au> Date: 28 Nov 92 11:02:32 +1000 References: <1ehqvhINNl3b@morrow.stanford.edu> <id.S38V.GYG@ferranti.com> <1et7fnINN6nr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <id.A5AV.9ZA@ferranti.com> Distribution: inet Organization: CSIRO, Exploration Geoscience Lines: 20 In article <id.A5AV.9ZA@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: > In article <1et7fnINN6nr@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes: >> 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. > > You're right, I'm wrong. I guess that abandoning the original plan to use > AIX for OSF/1 to get the API out quickly, and then polishing the innards > for OSF/2, is why it's taking so long to get generally available > implementations out (right now OSF/1 looks like just another DEC-proprietary > UNIX). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ So what did you expect - to look like Solaris? Solaris is yet another Sun-proprietary UNIX, etc. We live in interesting times - wonder what the common desktop will look like in the years to come. -- Jack N. Churchill | J.Churchill@syd.deg.csiro.au ** Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed here are my own. **