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From: loverso@coltsfoot.osf.org (John Robert LoVerso)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com> <327@wafbox.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:41:46 GMT
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In article <327@wafbox.UUCP>, bill@wafbox.UUCP (Bill Fulton) writes:
|> 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"?)

AT&T != UNIX.  BSD != UNIX.  SYSV != UNIX.  (OSF/1 != UNIX)

UNIX == Tenth Edition.

And it is over.  See Plan 9.

``Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.''
		-- Rob Pike

John