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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: SunOS honest BSD? (was: bug with ufs)
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Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 13:23:14 GMT
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In <CD1BF5.JMM@poly.edu> kapela@poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:

>Now, I wish people would stop assuming SunOS is the definitive Unix or BSD, 
>since it is *neither*.  Just because XXX OS does something does not mean
>it is right.

Actually, I would consider DEC Ultrix to be the last vendor-supplied
big workstation really honest BSD derivative.  I know people who swear
by SunOS, but I don't like it's schizoid personality a lot of times
(and don't even mention Solaris *blech*).  I like my Ultrix. :-) Too
bad it's going away...


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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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