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From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.231234.20969@nobeltech.se>
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:12:34 GMT
References: <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu>
Organization: NobelTech AB
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In article <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
>Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV.
Oh ? Aha, you mean HP and the small guys like SGI and others.
Neither DEC nor IBM uses system V, just hacked parts, just like
they use parts of BSD. Dec will deliver OSF/1.
( Not that I like Ultrix and AIX anyway, but...)
>
>But once you get it ported it will be a lot easier to make it run on
>the other major systems out there. And, perhaps more importantly,
>vendors writing software for other major systems out there will have a
>lot less trouble porting their software to Sun.
I haven't really seen any major system V selling vendors except the PC
market. Who uses System V ? ( We have Vaxen, SUNs,Destations,RS6000,HP,
Rational, Xerox, IBM/MVS. No system V)
>
>But its very nice once you do learn it. Adding new devices is easier.
Yeah. Just like they wont be usable unless they are connected and powered
on when you boot the machine. I'm used to run around with my exabyte &
cdrom.
/Per
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