Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

[Wilko Bulte]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:09:36AM -0400, Jamie Bowden wrote..
> On 5/1/06, Lucas Holt <luke at foolishgames.com> wrote:
> >
> >On May 1, 2006, at 9:23 AM, Maslan wrote:
> >>
> >> That's right, but sunos (earlier than solaris) was based on bsd.
> >> www : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunos
> 
> >Sun OS is how I got into BSD.  My first sparc had sunos 4.21 on it.
> >It was definitely BSD.  It makes sense considering Bill Joy co-
> >founded sun.  I ended up putting NetBSD on that sparc and later found
> >FreeBSD.
> 
> SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.?(1 maybe?  It's been a long time now.))
> was the final release of SunOS 4.  It was basically 4.1.3_U1 with a
> couple of other minor fixes merged in.  I spent a very long time
> porting software from SunOS  4 to Solaris 2.3|4|5 during that time as
> we transitioned from our older Sun4c|m based servers and hosts to
> Sun4u (which of course only ran Solaris 2.5 and beyond (or Solaris 4

2.5 on the sun4u?  Wasn't that 2.5.1 minimum?

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org