Linked by Michael Reed on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 18:23 UTC
There are at this time, a number of what I would term 'OS re-creation projects' (OSRs) in active development. These are OSes that attempt, by varying degrees, to re-implement the features of another operating system. In this article, I'm going to explore some of issues surrounding projects of this type. In the second half of the article, I apply these observations and examine two example platforms (Amiga and OS/2) and the related re-creation OSes.
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"Really, BSD would probably be one of the best candidates for "recreation of unix""
Correct me if I am wrong, please, but BSD was not a recreation of Unix. It IS Unix.
BSD was developed at Berkeley based on the Bell Labs project. Bell's Unix included the source code. Berkeley built on this and over the years because BSD.
Bell Labs (or AT&T) and Berkeley went to court over who owns BSD. They settled out of court....
Nice little diagram:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Unix_history-sim...