On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:11 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 22 October 2013 21:55, Mouse <mouse at
rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Even if there are, I think it would make sense to
release what they
can, even if it doesn't quite make a whole system.
Cf BSD 4.4Lite.
I always wished IBM had done that with Workplace OS/2.
Real x86 OS/2, I understand - there's a lot of Microsoft code in
there. But the Workplace version with Unix underneath had to be less
encumbered, surely...
It was completely unencumbered. Everything was pretty much written from scratch.
Even though the kernel proper started from Mach 3.0, by the time it was folded up the
code looked almost nothing like what came from CMU.
TTFN - Guy