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From: andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:38:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
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References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> <1992Nov17.034806.21754@ra.msstate.edu>
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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.  MAny of the
: 
: Really?  DEC don't.  IBM don't.  HP don't really.  Who's left who
: qualify as ``major''?    I don't know if SGI are (a) major or (b) Sys V,
: but it doesn't really matter.

Interesting...

DEC ports SVrN (N=23) to Vaxen to sell back to the Baby Bells.

Ultrix has a SYSV "world" from V1.2 (or was it 2.0 ?)

AIX is decended from a mix of SVr1-3 & HP/UX has followed the SVID at least
to SVr3.

In Europe System V is the dominant player withICL, Olivetti, Siemens/Nixdorf.

Andy