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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ixnews1.ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!tporczyk From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V Message-ID: <tporczykDq8qKI.M9z@netcom.com> Organization: ITRC References: <4lce4k$flh@news.umbc.edu> <4le2bl$ilp@wolfe.wimsey.com> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 01:53:06 GMT Lines: 29 Sender: tporczyk@netcom14.netcom.com aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com (Danny Aldham) writes: >Sandip Srivastava (ssriva1@umbc.edu) wrote: >: 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. >Yes, SunOS is dead, and Solaris is SystemV R4. Hehehehe... Heard that years ago... And to clarify: SunOS 4.1.x = Solaris 1.x SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x And, no, 2.x in Solaris doesn't necessarily mean it's an "upgrade" from 1.x :-) >: And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant? >Linux looks like SystemV to me. Hm. Could you elaborate? You obviously got good eyes, cause no matter how hard I look, Linux just looks like Linux to me. t. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Porczyk * tporczyk@netcom.com * San Jose, California GIT/ED d++$(!d) s++:++ a? C++++ USLB++++$ P+ E--- W(--) N++ !k w-- M- V? b- PS+++@ PE++ O X-- Y++@ PGP-- t+@ 5++ R* D---- e* V-- h* y** r+++(*)+++(*)>? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------