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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
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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