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From: john@odin.apana.org.au (John Saunders)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Message-ID: <CtwH17.4yn@odin.apana.org.au>
Organization: Grunt - Linux box
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:00:43 GMT
References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul21.182603.15882@belvedere.sbay.org> <2NsBkiCqLiLU068yn@cs.odu.edu> <30pn0a$9rf@hermes.unt.edu> <CtEuyA.En1@world.std.com> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> <CtLEK1.Ir8@news.cern.ch>
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In article <CtLEK1.Ir8@news.cern.ch>, Dan Pop (danpop@cernapo.cern.ch) wrote:
> In <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes:
> >SunOS != Solaris. Wake up. Too different products. Solaris is what is
> >shipped nowdays, exactly why I will *NOT* buy sparcs anymore.
> Wake up. Solaris is only a nickname for SunOS 5.x, which is the official
> name of the OS:
I think he was refering to the SunOS 4.x versions. SunOS 5.x is commonly
refered to Solaris 2.x, we probably have the marketing types to thank
for that.
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