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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:2835 comp.os.linux.misc:20324 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!newsdist.tc.umn.edu!uum1!newsserver!mark From: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com (Mark P. Gooderum, Software Engineer) Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame war, but Ive got to know! Sender: usenet@newsserver.aggregate.com (Usenet News Administrative Account) Message-ID: <MARK.94Jul26141040@jupiter.aggregate.com> In-Reply-To: davis@blackmoor's message of 26 Jul 1994 01:25:33 GMT Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 19:10:39 GMT References: <30drlt$7tc@news.u.washington.edu> <Ct5qpn.G6E@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU><9407221206.29@rmkhome.com> <DHOLLAND.94Jul25171448@scws33.harvard.edu> <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: jupiter.aggregate.com Organization: Aggregate Computing, Inc. Lines: 36 : > Except that the systems that make up gnu.ai.mit.edu are all BSDish : > in one way or another - AIX, HPUX, BSD, etc. : AIX is BSDish? Linux is more BSDish than AIX is. : Unless AIX has been seriously revamped in the last couple of years, : that is... : -- : - David A. Holland | "The right to be heard does not automatically : dholland@husc.harvard.edu | include the right to be taken seriously." > After nearly 3 years of AIX system administration I'm *still* not sure what > flavor of Unix it is. (the word "Unix" in this case is used very loosely) > > ;-) > > Cheers, > -- > -Jonathan We have a programmer's mantra here: AIX = Aix Is not uniX. This continues to manifest itself (I just wrote a 50 line replacement for something that can do close to a real seteuid()). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark P. Gooderum USSnail: Aggregate Computing, Inc. Software Engineer 300 So. Hiway 169 Ste 400 "Working hard to be hardly working..." Minneapolis, MN 55426 EMail: mark@aggregate.com Voice: (612) 546-5579 Interactive: mark@jupiter.aggregate.com Fax: (612) 546-9485 mark@sol.aggregate.com Sales/Sup:(800) 966-1666 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~