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Xref: sserve comp.unix.aix:49094 comp.unix.bsd:15630 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7801 comp.unix.solaris:28620 comp.unix.unixware:15426 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!koriel!newsworthy.West.Sun.COM!abyss.West.Sun.COM!lassie!brianh From: brianh@lassie.West.Sun.COM (Brian Horn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware Subject: Re: Unix for PC Date: 17 Dec 1994 23:09:16 GMT Organization: SunSoft, Los Angeles Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3cvr2s$cjm@abyss.West.Sun.COM> References: <3c86fs$3k5@bantu.Provo.Novell.COM> <rbbrownD0pIvC.2uJ@netcom.com> <3cie3e$rej@bantu.Provo.Novell.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: lassie.west.sun.com In article <3cie3e$rej@bantu.Provo.Novell.COM> darrend@bikini.USG.Sandy.Novell.COM (Darren R. Davis) writes: >Yes, UnixWare has all the dynamic loadable stuff just like Solaris, After >all, we are SVR4.2 where SunOS was only built on SVR4.0. Wait a sec here. This is more than a little unfair. If you want to make that sort of statement we can turn that right around and say that "After all, we are Solaris 2.4 and UnixWare was only build on Solaris 2.0". Remember that SVR4.X basically just describes the release of Novell product. It is *not* in and of itself a standard to which one conforms. Those standards are the ABIs (gABI, psABI for the Intel architecture and the ABI+ for the Intel architecture) for binaries and ANSI/POSIX/XPG4/Spec1170 for applications (I may have missed a few standards!). Basically developement diverged quite a while ago and each system has it's own quirks and differences as well as similarities.