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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.indiana.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ais.net!cdc2.cdc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!torn!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Freebsd or Slackware Linux ? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:59:14 -0500 Organization: RingZero Computing Lines: 21 Message-ID: <330E28C2.41C67EA6@quickweb.com> References: <32fd0363.41392688@news> <5dol8k$l8v@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <3301CCF9.548@cleveland.freenet.edu> <5dvac7$34m@rzstud2.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <5dvi5g$2vb@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5e220p$8qg$1@info1.fnal.gov> <87ybcpywqu.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: p17.gallium.sentex.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-GAMMA i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35891 stephen farrell wrote: > > stox@dcdkc.fnal.GOV (Ken Stox) writes: > > > > > 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 supports STREAMS as an add-on Don't forget DEC Unix (v3.2, and 4.x). It's very BSD like - a real nice commercial Unix IMHO. Of course, it's based on the Mach kernel, with support for both BSD and SysV Unix. -mark