[illumos-Developer] ON is bloated and a bunch of stuff that doesn't need to be there should be ripped out (was Re: Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal)

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Fri Nov 12 10:21:44 PST 2010


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:59 -0800, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
> For whatever it's worth, ripping out SunOS 4.x compatibility was
> always one of Tim Marsland's dreams.  He always demurred, and given
> how badly he wanted to do it, it was probably for good reason.  Tim is
> now a kernel engineer at Apple; don't know if he's on this list
> (Tim?), but it might be a good idea to reach out for some history
> here...
> 
>         - Bryan


Good advice, thanks!

	- Garrett




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