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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:566 comp.unix.bsd:8074 Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!nntp.msstate.edu!fwp From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <1992Nov17.034806.21754@ra.msstate.edu> Sender: fwp@ra.msstate.edu (Frank Peters) Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:48:06 GMT Lines: 18 In article <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) says: : 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. OSF/1, AIX, HPUX and Irix (yes, I consider SGI major) are all strong descendants of the system V world. Everything from use of directories of boot scripts (rather than the BSDish rc.* scripts) to the use of inittabs to the man page directory structure to terminfo instead of termcap to a SYSV cron to a SYSV line printer system to a tendency towards STREAMS points to this. -- Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu - Phone: (601)325-7030 - FAX: (601)325-8921