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From: bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1
Date: 9 Dec 1996 12:41:53 -0500
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: In article <58bdl4$g68@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu>,
: Dan Cross <tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> wrote:
: > Amen. I'm starting to grow very weary of Sun shoving their proprietary
: > solutions down the throats of their users (NIS+, for example). Digital
: > UNIX is, IMHO, a much easier platform to develop for and to administrate.
: > It's a shame that DEC has lost so much market ground to what amount to
: > technically inferior solutions (such as Sun).
:
: Especially since Digital UNIX is based on 4.3 Reno ...
^^^^^^^^^
And since you like BSD, and Digital UNIX is BSD based you like it over
Solaris which isn't. Hard to believe. Major shocker. None of the BSD
lovers like Solaris, so why keep bringing it up. It's over. Sun's gone SVR4.
No more SunOS (thank god!).