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Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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From: bcs@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Brent Summers)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 09:14:53 +1300
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In article <1992Nov19.164146.26801@osf.org> loverso@coltsfoot.osf.org 
(John Robert LoVerso) writes:
|AT&T != UNIX.  BSD != UNIX.  SYSV != UNIX.  (OSF/1 != UNIX)

Agreed!  
Does anyone have the correct text for Dennis Ritchie's comment re only
using the word "UNIX" as an adjective?

|UNIX == Tenth Edition.

Hmmm, not even sure that is true in any practical sense.

|And it is over.  See Plan 9.

Love to - got a copy of the sources?

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+-Brent Summers, U of Waikato, NZ------------------------------------------+
|   Programming:  Navigating through an infinity of programs in search of  |
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