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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. other Unix's (Linux, etc.)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:19:47 -0700
Organization: Me
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Message-ID: <31C9A453.67557C96@lambert.org>
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Jonathan Lemon wrote:
] 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?
"System V" is a term that implied SVID ("System V Interface
Definition") compliance.
I can't help it if it's been adulterated to mean "code licensed
from USL".
That doesn't make the adulteration "correct usage".
I believe Sequent implements the RT section of SVID in the
same non-compliant way as everyone else.
SVID is kind of meaningless if there isn't a conformant
implementation anywhere, don't you think? (Sun fails on
other SVID conformance issues because they have an OK VM
system instead of a SVID-compliant one).
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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