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From: stox@dcdkc.fnal.GOV (Ken Stox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ?
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:57:13 GMT
Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
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In article <5dvi5g$2vb@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr>,
espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) writes:
>>I don't know about DG/UX, but HP-UX is a System V.
>
> HP-UX is something like a heavily modified BSD trying to pretend to be
> SysV. Consider this (with HP-UX 9.05): BSD-like pty's, no STREAMS,
> sockets that act like BSD... Of course, signals reset the handler like
> on SysV, because that must have been easy enough to change...
HP/UX was build upon a System V.2 code base, with BSD features hacked in.
If HP had started with BSD, HP/UX might have been a real contender these
days, but we'll just have to see what kind of mess UNIX/64 turns out to
be.