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From: bill@wafbox.UUCP (Bill Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <327@wafbox.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 92 08:44:09 GMT
References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com>
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In article <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
># There are a lot of reasons to unify the UNIX world under one roof. You
># may prefer BSD over SysV, but let's face facts -> BSD is dead.
>Face it, dude, AT&T doesn't know UNIX from a hole in their ass. USL is
>even less clueful. System V UNIX is dead. The market opened their eyes
>and told them "you can't possibly be serious!" and they adopted BSD as
>the only way to keep selling licenses. POSIX won the interface battle,
>not SVID. BSD won the users over. If you think a new user would take
>System V.[01234] seriously as a competitor to Windows/NT or BSD, you are
>totally out of your freaking mind.
Emminent death of SysV Unix predicted! :-)
(Who's gonna tell Robert, Brian, and the rest of the guys working Version nine
that they don't know UNIX from "a hole in thier ass"?)
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