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From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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: In article <3cie3e$rej@bantu.provo.novell.com>,

: >Yes, UnixWare has all the dynamic loadable stuff just like Solaris,  After
: >all, we are SVR4.2 where SunOS was only built on SVR4.0.

After SVR4.0, Sun's Solaris went one way enhancing their product with
the latest being Solaris 2.4.  SVR4.0 did not support SMP, a dynamic kernel,
kernel threads etc. but Solaris 2.4 has them.  

SVR4.0 became 4.1 and then 4.2 which is what UnixWare is built on but
to believe that UnixWare is better since its 4.2 and not 4.0 is silly.

Unixware 1.1 (SVR4.2) does not support any of the mentioned features that
Solaris does yet 4.2 is greater than 4.0 so how could that be?

When UnixWare 2.0 comes out supporting the features that Solaris has had for
years, it will still be based on SVR4.2.  USL is gone so the numbers
tacked on to SVR4.x are meaningless.
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Regards,
Bryan Althaus           bryan@krf.com