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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: Solaris as a server
- Message-ID: <16361@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:03:41 GMT
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- >I had heard that SunSoft essentially rewrote the MP-affected areas of the
- >kernel,
-
- True.
-
- >and that all resulting code changes were to be sent back to USL to be
- >re-integrated into SVR4 (SVR4.3)?
-
- Dunno. As far as I know, the SVR4 ES/MP release (which I think is what
- SVR4.3 is going to be) is *not* based on Sun's MP stuff, however,
- although there was at least some attempt to keep the device-driver
- interfaces and some level of user-mode and maybe kernel-mode threads
- stuff compatible.
-