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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bert.eecs.uic.edu!zmola From: zmola@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Carl Zmola) Subject: Re: What is unix? Message-ID: <1993Jun25.152721.14684@bert.eecs.uic.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago References: <1993Jun25.011623.21529@spectrum.xerox.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 15:27:21 GMT Lines: 20 leisner@hydrus (Marty Leisner x71348 ) writes: >Here's a letter I'm sending to Open Systems Today. >I can't believe they said BSD/386 is a "unix lookalike". > I'm not sure I understand what your saying? Are you putting > this in the same class as Linux, Minix, Lynx, QNX and everything > which ends in n[i]x? > Even though BSD/386 is not stamped Unix by USL, it is very > much BSD unix... Unix(tm) is owned by (USL? Novell). If you don't pay for the name, It's not UNIX. Nice, simple and legal (is that an oxmoron :-) ). Carl zmola@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu