[rescue] SunOS 4.x (was: Re: FDDI stuff)

[gonufer]

Greg A. Woods wrote:

> I'm not so sure about that.  The Sun Canada OPCOM group did major
> amounts of hacking on SunOS (3, 4, & 5) for many BIG customers (and
> still do).  Some of their code went back into the main tree, but some of
> it didn't.
> 
> I know for a fact (well second-hand) that SunOS-4 was built internally
> on UltraSPARC,


That's an urban legend and wishful thinking by some folks at the time. 
No, it wasn't (first-hand knowledge).

Although I do know someone who claims to have seen Solaris 1.x on a 
sun4d machine...  which also never happened.

-greg


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