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From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <1992Nov17.160727.9137@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
References: <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:07:27 GMT
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igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:

>In article <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
>> Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV.  MAny of the

>Really?  DEC don't.  IBM don't.  HP don't really.  Who's left who

DEC is pushing OSF/1, which is has SysV roots,  IBM pushes AIX which is
a SysV derivative.  They may not call them SysV - but they are much
more SysV than BSD!

>qualify as ``major''?    I don't know if SGI are (a) major or (b) Sys V,
>but it doesn't really matter.

>ian