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From: mitch@cirrus.com (Mitch Wright)
Subject: Re: What is unix?
Message-ID: <1993Jul1.202107.29585@cirrus.com>
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 20:21:07 GMT
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/* In <27600007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com> chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com writes: */


>/* Written  8:16 pm  Jun 24, 1993 by leisner@hydrus.UUCP */
>/* ---------- "What is unix?" ---------- */
>Here's a letter I'm sending to Open Systems Today.  
>I can't believe they said BSD/386 is a "unix lookalike".
>       [...]
>	Even though BSD/386 is not stamped Unix by USL, it is very
>	much BSD unix...
>/* End of text from tisdec.tis.tandy.com:comp.unix.bsd */

>Open Systems's Today, is correct in their statement tha 'BSD/386 is not UNIX
>however.  It is a Unix-like operating system derived from the NET2 release...'
>
I've missed a great deal of this thread, but I contend that UNIX is much
more of a philosophy these days than it is an operating system.

   ~mitch