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From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
In-Reply-To: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:48:06 GMT
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fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
> OSF/1, AIX, HPUX and Irix (yes, I consider SGI major) are all strong
> descendants of the system V world.  Everything from use of directories
> of boot scripts (rather than the BSDish rc.* scripts) to the use of
> inittabs to the man page directory structure to terminfo instead of
> termcap to a SYSV cron to a SYSV line printer system to a tendency
> towards STREAMS points to this.

And just where in HP-UX do you find "a tendency towards STREAMS"?

Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no, 
	sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no