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From: tporczyk@best.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris vs SunOs
Date: 21 Aug 1996 08:11:32 -0700
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bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) writes:

>Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>: James L Fox wrote:
>: > would someone please convince me that Solaris will provide me
>: > with much more than the JOY of converting all of my incompatable
>: > shell scripts. (Like all the ones that use 'ps'.)
>: 
>: Having worked with both environments, I can only say that anyone trying
>: to convince you of this will only be trying to make you feel better. :-)

>ATTENTION: UCB BSD is DEAD... SunOS 4.x is DEAD... move on to Solaris 
>2.x it's Sun's future, and SVR4 is SCO's and HP's future also.

ATTENTION: SCO is DEAD, Solaris is the only major SVR4 on the market,
HP and AIX is havily laden with BSD-isms, and even Solaris includes ucb
directory.  By the way, you forgot SGI.

t.
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