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From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: SUN moving away from BSD to System V
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 01:53:06 GMT
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aldham@vanbc.wimsey.com (Danny Aldham) writes:

>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.

Hehehehe... Heard that years ago...  And to clarify:

SunOS 4.1.x = Solaris 1.x
SunOS 5.x   = Solaris 2.x

And, no, 2.x in Solaris doesn't necessarily mean it's an "upgrade" from
1.x :-)

>: And isn't Linux based on System V and POSIX compliant?

>Linux looks like SystemV to me. 

Hm.  Could you elaborate?  You obviously got good eyes, cause no matter
how hard I look, Linux just looks like Linux to me.

t.
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