On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 07:46, Chip Marshall wrote: > This is probably slightly off topic, but for an interesting overview > of the forking history of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, check > out http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html > > It doesn't cover all the various Linux distros, since that would > probably take up another 7 pages.
Yeah, but it covers all sorts of nearly insignificant point releases for Linux, SunOS and BSD while it excludes major architecturally different versions of System V (e.g., segment swapping vs. demand paging) in the SVR2 era. It also does not cover the heavy cross pollination of System V and Solaris that resulted in the original SVR4 and Solaris 2. A bunch of vendor specific flavors of UNIX with unique architectures (Gould, Auragen Systems, Amdahl UTS, Tandem Integrity S2, AT&T Apache, etc.) are also missing. The mid-1980's AT&T Apache version is especially interesting because it ran as a single instance on distributed clusters with both loosely and tightly coupled multiprocessors. Seth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
