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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:19:58 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) wrote:
] How a sofwtare developer can even thinkof preferring SunOS 4
] is beyond me, a system administrator with a SunOS 4 background
] may like being on familiar ground more.
I caim "customer proveledge". 8-).
] >Sun tries to hide the fact that there's a difference using
] >labelling, but we all know the difference between BSD and SVR4,
] >and we prefer BSD.
]
] I used to prefer BSD. But I now think that part of the mess Unix is in
] (BSD signal() vs SV signal(), sigvec vs sigaction) is because the BSD
] people all seemed to have flunked "API design 101"
] POSIX was needed to adapt the good ideas from BSD but iron the
] API wrinkles out of them.
I agree.
However, SVR4 is not needed to implement POSIX.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.