On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:07 PM, frantisek holop <minusf@obiit.org> wrote:

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> a bit OT, but
> i just had the pleasure of meeting and ex-sun employee, working
> mostly on kernel stuff.  i dont know how similar the opensolaris
> and solaris kernels are, but he said the solaris kernel code is
> a beauty to read, and simplicity and readibility are adhered
> to fanatically...  that reminds me another dev community :o)


Sun learnt a lot of lessons when it tried to merge sparc and x86 code bases
together around the solaris 2.4 time, iirc.  That's why things like zfs are
endian neutral.  OpenBSD started in the multi cpu world to begin with.



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