[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Dan Cross]

In article <k5n2tcFtd0kU9 at mid.individual.net>,
bill  <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2/22/2023 10:08 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> While you're at it, feel free to call someone at Oracle and ask them to
>> open-source SunOS 4.1.4.  If you can actually get someone to understand
>> that SunOS is different than Solaris you'll have got farther than anyone else
>> ever has.
>
>Why would anyone want SunOS 4.1.4 open sourced?  There is nothing
>there that isn't in any of the BSD's that are already available
>and include versions that run on Sun hardware.  I can see Oracle's
>reluctance to waste any time or money doing anything with any
>version of SunOS.  Assuming they even still have copies of any of it!!

I can think of two reasons:

1. Nostalgia (and hobbyists)
2. The virtual memory subsystem

The VM system in SunOS 4 was very clean.  Fortunately, this is
one of the things that was carried over in large part to Solaris
2.

	- Dan C.