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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:476 comp.unix.bsd:7744 Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!netcomsv!sjsumcs!rick From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept. References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:20:53 GMT Lines: 25 pirzyk@cs.uiuc.edu (Jim Pirzyk) writes: >In <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes: >> I'm getting ready to buy a workstation..and I'm basically looking >>at a used SS2, a new IPX, or a new SparcClassic. The advantage of the >>first two, is that they run SunOS 4... unfortunately, the Classic only >>runs Solaris 2. The reason I feel this is unfortunate, is that I very >>much prefer the BSD programming model. However, I've been told that >>Solaris 2 will be 100% source code compatable to the older versions. Is >>this true? and to what extent is it true? I mean.. if I have a program >>that uses bsd kernel calls (ioctl and fcntl type things), will it compile >>under Solaris 2.0? or will I have to re-write it around the AT&T type >>programming model? There are a lot of reasons to unify the UNIX world under one roof. You may prefer BSD over SysV, but let's face facts -> BSD is dead. BSD is the property of UC California, Berkeley, and they are closing it down. The BSD offices are slowly getting ready to close, and UC has announced that it does not feel that the University should be functioning as a source code house. So, without someone to carry that torch, BSD will slowly die. USL is still the 'master of the source' for Sys V. USL may be up for sale, but there are no plans, that I am aware of, to shut it down.