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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: Solaris as a server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.081621.11235@informix.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 08:16:21 GMT
- References: <1993Jan07.191515.13156@catfish.az05.bull.com> <ellis.726459276@nova> <16307@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <16307@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>One of
- >>the principle reasons for the transition from BSD in Solaris 1.0.1 to SYSVR4
- >>in Solaris 2.x is to support multiprocessor server-class machines.
- >
- >Presumably you don't mean by the above that the change was to add MP
- >support to the kernel, 'cuz that *wasn't* one of the reasons - huge
- >chunks of the Solaris 1.x kernel don't particularly look like the BSD
- >kernel (including the MP support in 1.0.1 and 1.1), and, from what
- >people I know at SunSoft say, huge chunks of the Solaris 2.x kernel
- >don't particularly look like the SVR4 kernel (I don't think their MP
- >support is the same as the USL MP support).
-
- I had heard that SunSoft essentially rewrote the MP-affected areas of the
- kernel, and that all resulting code changes were to be sent back to USL to be
- re-integrated into SVR4 (SVR4.3)? Can anyone confirm?
-
-
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