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From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI
Message-ID: <1992Jul29.182141.10399@prism.poly.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:21:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: prism.1992Jul29.182141.10399
References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
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In article <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
>In article <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> knight@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight of the Living Dead) writes:
>>
>>As I recall when System 5 Revision 4.0 was released, it was described
>>(to me, anyway) as an attempt to gain "BSD Compatibility".  I'm wondering
>The only problem with this idea is that SYSVr4 (NOT System 5, that was
>another Unix way back) doesn't look like BSD, it still looks like SYSV to

SVR4 is System V, Release 4.  System 7 was an early version of Unix
way back (in the pre-dawn era :-) )

>the normal user, ie you have horrid syntax for the ps utility where you need
>to use a hyphen in front of the arguments and the devices... yuck!

Actually, this would make "ps" *consistent* with other unix utilities.  In
general, options are preceded by a dash, arguments to those options aren't.

>
>The only real thing I've seen which is BSD is the socket library (not
>complete) and the BSD compatibility library which is not complete either.
>

What about POSIX signals?  They are derived from Berkeley signals. 
The old System V (pre- R4) methods of handling signals was brain-dead.

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 Theodore S. Kapela				kapela@poly.edu
 Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing	
 Polytechnic University