[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>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.

Also use of commercial software that was available only in binary form.
Much of which you can make work with some tinkering under BSD but it's not
fun tinkering.
--scott
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