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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!van-bc!vanbc!aldham From: aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com (Danny Aldham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V Date: 21 Apr 1996 19:29:57 GMT Organization: Wimsey Information Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4le2bl$ilp@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <4lce4k$flh@news.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vanbc.wimsey.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sandip Srivastava (ssriva1@umbc.edu) wrote: : A friend of mine who does quite a bit of C and Unix programming on Suns, : told me that SUN is moving away from a BSD based system towards System V. Yes, SunOS is dead, and Solaris is SystemV R4. : And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant? Linux looks like SystemV to me. I would doubt that anyone has paid for the POSIX compliance testing. Danny Aldham