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

[Dave McGuire]

On August 22, gonufer 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).

  As I mentioned to James off-list, I first heard this rumor from a Sun
FedSystems employee, he said that it was done for a gov't agency.
Given the level of the employee in question, I gave it a fair amount
of weight.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD