[luckydude]

That was me as well, though I wrote it in perl4 and C. My version was called NSElite. The Solaris kernel was developed under NSElite, some stuff is here:

http://mcvoy.com/lm/nselite

2000.txt documents the first 2000 resyncs (think bk pull) of the kernel.

Avocet was what you got when you took all my perl code and handed it to the tools group and they rewrote it in C++ (which they later admitted was a horrible idea). The only thing of mine that they kept was smoosh.c and that was because not a single one of them had the chops to write that code (yeah, there was no love lost between me and the tools group).

BitKeeper is what Avocet could have been if Sun had not stopped me from doing any more work on NSElite (I was 1 guy who was coding circles around 8 tools people and they didn't like it). Shrug. C++ was just wrong, perl4 was just way faster to code in, and when I needed performance I coded in C. It's not my fault they picked the wrong way to go about things. (That, BTW, was the first time I ever personally saw that you really can have one guy who can do the work of 8, almost, but not quite a 10x programmer :-)