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From: ssriva1@umbc.edu (Sandip Srivastava)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: SUN moving away from BSD to System V
Date: 21 Apr 1996 04:38:44 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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A friend of mine who does quite a bit of C and Unix programming on Suns, 
told me that SUN is moving away from a BSD based system towards System V.

And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant?


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