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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:590 comp.unix.bsd:8138 Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uunet!utcsri!geac!torag!robohack!woods From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. References: <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com> Message-ID: <1992Nov24.064615.18607@robohack.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 06:46:15 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: > What are you smoking, and where can I get some (legally)??? > > The only reason SysV is alive is because of SVR4, and the only reason any- > one wants SVR4 is because of the BSDisms. What are you smoking, and where can I get some (legally)??? "BSDisms"!?!?!? Read you're own signature Dick! > Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado > ...Simpler is better. The only good stuff in BSD or SVR$ [sic] came from the Labs, *not* CSRG, or USG [USL]! [Barring the obvious exceptions, of course.] > If you could back up far enough in the source code, USL could give you one > of the better operating systems of the late '70's. Try to imagine why > people don't care. It's too bad we can't get "back" to the research code from the late '80's! -- Greg A. Woods woods@robohack.UUCP, woods@Elegant.COM VE3TCP UniForum Canada & ECI +1 416 443-1734 [home] +1 416 362-XRSA [work] Toronto, Ontario; CANADA