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From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. other Unix's (Linux, etc.)
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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:37:56 GMT
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In article <31C61646.EAB8B4E@lambert.org>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>aks@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com wrote:
>] BSD is dead.  Show me a single major vendor which does not
>] move or moved to System V.
>
>o	All UNIX vendors other than Sun (if you count "System V"
>	as requiring SVID conformance -- READ SVID III about
>	gettimeofday(RT), select(RT), getitimer(RT), and
>	setitimer(RT).  Pay attention to "system clock frequency"
>	vs. "system clock update frequency".  USL UNIX does not
>	conform to SVID.  It is not "System V").

What about Sequent?
--
Jonathan