OT: Re: [LUNI] Re: Citrix/ Unix....

Douglas J. Trainor trainor at transborder.org
Wed Mar 16 11:04:54 CST 2005


Watch it with the past tense.
Last year I got hired to do some system administration on a Solaris 2.x 
box!

Kenneth P. Stox wrote:
>
>> Solaris
>> 2.x was the result of squishing BSD and SysVR4 together.
>
> Actually, Solaris 2.0 was a variant of System V R4, which was the union
> of BSD and System V R3. Sun quickly realized that this was a mistake,
> and proceeded to move major subsystems back to a much more BSD like
> construct. Especially the IP stack. Streams was a great idea in theory,
> but it never worked out in the real world. Had the OSI stack taken off
> instead of IP, that might have been different.



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