On 11/23/05, Dave Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "UNIX" == UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > UNIX> Unfortunately, the BSD style of things, lack of wide HW driver > UNIX> support have kept a really solid operating system from gaining > UNIX> critical momentum; it's simply too exotic (OS X comes to mind!), > UNIX> plus SVR4 (from which BSD also stems) has been adopted as THE > UNIX> standard for UNIX almost 20 years ago. > > Huh? BSD stems from SVR4? In what way? My recollection of history > is System V catching up to many BSD things years later. So could you > clarify what you mean by BSD stemming from SVR4?
Perhaps what he meant to say was that SVr4 comes in part from BSD. As I recall the order events: -People at Berkeley write BSD, some of these people go work for Sun. -AT&T and Sun take the parts of Unix, BSD, and some new stuff to create a new Unix, which eventually becomes Unix SVr4 and Solaris. -Post lawsuit with AT&T, 4.4 BSD Lite is created, which in turn is the basis for Free, Net and OpenBSD. -AT&T anti-trust. Open Group is created as the holder of the Unix `standard' but not the source code, and POSIX and UNIX standards as we know them today are based on for the most part on SVr4. So chronologically I guess SVr4 pre-dates 4.4 BSD, so maybe that's the source of confusion. Clearly a lot of ideas happened in BSD first and made there way into the current incarnation of Solaris. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
