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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> <1992Nov17.034806.21754@ra.msstate.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:22:44 GMT
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Frank Peters:
>OSF/1, AIX, HPUX and Irix (yes, I consider SGI major) are all strong
>descendants of the system V world.

AIX is unfortunately also a strong descendent of MVS and CMS (see s[mh]it
and the mini-disks underlying AIX file systems for a start).  It's a pity
that the thing doesn't come with CP67.
-- 
Geoff Collyer				world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff