>Perhaps what he meant to say was that SVr4 comes in part from BSD. As >I recall the order events:
You forgot the first event: which is that Unix escaped from Bell Labs and is enhanced elsewhere, including Berkeley; BSD did include AT&T materials >-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. Much of what became SVR4 came from Sun, not BSD. >-Post lawsuit with AT&T, 4.4 BSD Lite is created, which in turn is th= >e 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 th= >e >source of confusion. Clearly a lot of ideas happened in BSD first and >made there way into the current incarnation of Solaris. "Clearly"? If you discount the inventions done for SunOS at Sun, I don't think there's that much to show: sockets, reliable signal handling, r* commands. I think it's safer to say that there's common ancestry and that the torch of development passed from AT&T to BSD to Sun (and that's where it still is, if you ask me :-) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
