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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems installing cnews/nn
Message-ID: <Bywnoq.IyC@world.std.com>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
References: <1992Nov27.153032.10611@uropax.contrib.de> 	<1fav2bINN2ie@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com> 	<VIXIE.92Nov30104256@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByK57p.3M6@world.std.com> 	<VIXIE.92Dec4134323@cognition.pa.dec.com> <Byrvwu.155@world.std.com> 	<VIXIE.92Dec5150856@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByuEI8.G67@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Dec6090950@cognition.pa.dec.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 20:02:49 GMT
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Paul A Vixie:
>Well, it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it's
>labelled "duck", but if you want me to call it a tree, I guess "ok".

By your own admission, it doesn't walk like a duck, it doesn't quack like
a duck, and it's labelled "vmduck" (which apparently means a duck to fat
or stupid too fly).

>That kernel's name happens to be "/vmunix"
>and has a lot of Bell Labs UNIX code in it, so I call it "UNIX".

The change of name should have tipped you off; it's 4BSD, not UNIX.  They
are distantly related.  Unfortunately, 4BSD has more non-Bell code than
Bell code in it.  A lot more.
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Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff

``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group