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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <id.A5AV.9ZA@ferranti.com>
Date: 25 Nov 92 19:41:04 GMT
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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).
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