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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!indetech!cirrus!mitch From: mitch@cirrus.com (Mitch Wright) Subject: Re: What is unix? Message-ID: <1993Jul1.202107.29585@cirrus.com> Followup-To: poster Sender: news@cirrus.com Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. References: <21529@spectrum.xerox.com> <27600007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 20:21:07 GMT Lines: 19 /* In <27600007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com> chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com writes: */ >/* Written 8:16 pm Jun 24, 1993 by leisner@hydrus.UUCP */ >/* ---------- "What is unix?" ---------- */ >Here's a letter I'm sending to Open Systems Today. >I can't believe they said BSD/386 is a "unix lookalike". > [...] > Even though BSD/386 is not stamped Unix by USL, it is very > much BSD unix... >/* End of text from tisdec.tis.tandy.com:comp.unix.bsd */ >Open Systems's Today, is correct in their statement tha 'BSD/386 is not UNIX >however. It is a Unix-like operating system derived from the NET2 release...' > I've missed a great deal of this thread, but I contend that UNIX is much more of a philosophy these days than it is an operating system. ~mitch