15 Mar
2011
15 Mar
'11
8:03 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Frank McConnell <fmc at reanimators.org> wrote:
BWAHAHAHA!
HP-UX v5 is a rewrite of the System V kernel in HP's proprietary
MODCAL. ?It runs atop another lower-level OS called SUN OS.
It's pretty amazing in the sense that you can do that to Unix and
it still looks and works like Unix. ?Well, mostly. ?There are
some funny things about '.' and '..' on HP-UX v5.
-Frank McConnell
Interesting. A lot of the stuff I've seen seems to indicate that the
SUNOS and Modcal stuff was for the FOCUS-based 500 series releases,
while the 68K-based releases for the Integral and the 200 series were
a bit more generic. If the 68K stuff also used the proprietary HP
stuff, that just makes it more interesting. Still the presence of Sys
V userland components still mean that you'd need a Unix license to use
the thing...
Mike