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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:542 comp.unix.bsd:7980 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!sun!ultrix!andrewr From: andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:38:31 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <lgif17INNful@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> <1992Nov17.034806.21754@ra.msstate.edu> Reply-To: andrewr@Eng.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: ultrix : In article <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: : > Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV. MAny of the : : Really? DEC don't. IBM don't. HP don't really. Who's left who : qualify as ``major''? I don't know if SGI are (a) major or (b) Sys V, : but it doesn't really matter. Interesting... DEC ports SVrN (N=23) to Vaxen to sell back to the Baby Bells. Ultrix has a SYSV "world" from V1.2 (or was it 2.0 ?) AIX is decended from a mix of SVr1-3 & HP/UX has followed the SVID at least to SVr3. In Europe System V is the dominant player withICL, Olivetti, Siemens/Nixdorf. Andy