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Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!psinntp!psinntp!jadpc.jd.com!jdeitch From: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com (Jim Deitch) Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Message-ID: <E26rtz.23F@jadpc.jd.com> Organization: J. Deitch & Associates, San Diego, CA. References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com> Distribution: inet Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:08:23 GMT Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91955 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1749 comp.unix.internals:11540 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16957 In article <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: >In article <58hj11$bb6@panix.com>, Bryan Althaus <bryan@panix.com> wrote: >> And since you like BSD, and Digital UNIX is BSD based you like it over >> Solaris which isn't. > >Son, I like Unixware over Solaris too. Remember Interactive UNIX? That was >System V based as well. Sun bought Interactive and pretty much forced all the >Interactive users to switch to Solaris. Those folks didn't much care for >being switched from System V to... um... whatever Solaris is. > >"Mister Solaris... I knew System V. I used System V from the mid 80s to > the present day. I loved System V, System V was a friend of mine. And, > Mister Solaris, you're no System V." > Some of us are still running Interactive. I am up to 4.1. It still feels like System V, smells like System V, except for a few minor differences. The one I like the most is the long filenames. Solaris is kind of like HP/UX 10.X. Big, slow, clumsy. HP/UX 9.X OTOH was a System V system. I really rue the day we switched... Jim -- INTERNET: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com