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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge (was BSD vs. LINUX)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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References: <30jqp1$ees@grex.cyberspace.org> <1994Jul24.185248.5906@escape.widomaker.com> <313tkg$nhd@Mercury.mcs.com> <1994Jul28.020436.6672@escape.widomaker.com> <319jeg$d1d@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
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Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 20:23:10 GMT
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Amy Baron (amee@dreamtime.Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
: In article <1994Jul28.020436.6672@escape.widomaker.com>,
: Shannon Hendrix <shendrix@escape.widomaker.com> wrote:
: >Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote:
: >
: >: SunOS != Solaris.  Wake up.  Too different products.  Solaris is what is 
: >                               ^^^
: >Looks like you need to wake up.  Since I posted that SunOS and Solaris
: >are different (I used the names and didn't just say SunOS 5.x, even though
: >Sun certainly does and it's OK to do so) any fool should have known
: >better... 'cept you I guess.

: Not to be pedantic, but ...

: SunOS 4.x = Solaris 1.x   and   SunOS 5.x = Solaris 2.x .

: SunOS is the operating system itself, and Solaris is the entire
: operating "environment" . Presumably that includes Openwin and
: all those related goodies (except the compiler, of course...).

: Of course, in saying this, I am not trying to represent Sun, just
: perhaps explain this fairly feeble concept... 

Solaris 1.x still includes the compiler and it seems to be still evolving.


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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com