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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!daver!tscs!fin!chip From: chip@fin.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: Why 386BSD? References: <1uv9vc$6q8@vermeer.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1993Jun7.202341.25245@coe.montana.edu> <ALBERTO.93Jun8152940@bear.ishiilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp> Organization: Fantastic Information Network Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 22:33:32 GMT Message-ID: <C8Bqnx.26y@fin.uucp> Reply-To: chip%fin@myrddin.sybus.com Lines: 10 According to Alberto@ishiilab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp (Alberto Tomita Junior): >386BSD = BSD and Linux = System V. No, no. Linux is not System V. I think it does a very good job of pretending to be System V when necessary, but it also does a good job of pretending to be BSD when necessary. It is _really_ POSIX inside, a from-scratch implementation. -- Chip Salzenberg, at home: <chip@fin.uucp> or <tscs!fin!chip> Welcome to the monkey house. or <chip%fin@myrddin.sybus.com>