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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12204 comp.bugs.4bsd:1983 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!a2i!dhesi From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) Subject: Re: 4.4BSD Release Message-ID: <C9rv16.F1q@rahul.net> Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News) Nntp-Posting-Host: bolero Organization: a2i network References: <20qdsj$6rt@agate.berkeley.edu> <20vmq1INNf3g@CS.UTK.EDU> <ROB.93Jul1161349@gangrene.berkeley.edu> <C9IGKz.13z@kithrup.com> <ROB.93Jul1201153@gangrene.berkeley.edu> <JGREELY.93Jul6170732@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> <MIB.93Jul6194230@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 02:03:05 GMT Lines: 18 In <MIB.93Jul6194230@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes: >Wellp, you're wrong in this case. All of those things: SCO, Xenix, >Solaris, NextStep, BSD 4.3, etc., are in fact Unix. They all use the >AT&T code, and all have the right to call themselves Unix. Some other >thing (GNU, for example, or Linux, or 386 BSD) which don't include the >AT&T Unix code, nor are derived from it, cannot call themselves Unix. Michael, sorry to be so blunt, but you are very confused. You are confusing between the generic term UNIX, which is descriptive and refers to a broad class of operating systems, and the specific term UNIX, which refers to products from AT&T and USL. A little research will show you that the uses of UNIX as a generic term far outnumber its uses to refer to a specific trade-marked product. -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> also: dhesi@cirrus.com