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From: jdeitch@jadpc.jd.com (Jim Deitch)
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Message-ID: <E26rtz.23F@jadpc.jd.com>
Organization: J. Deitch & Associates, San Diego, CA.
References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 07:08:23 GMT
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In article <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>In article <58hj11$bb6@panix.com>, Bryan Althaus <bryan@panix.com> wrote:
>> And since you like BSD, and Digital UNIX is BSD based you like it over
>> Solaris which isn't.
>
>Son, I like Unixware over Solaris too. Remember Interactive UNIX? That was
>System V based as well. Sun bought Interactive and pretty much forced all the
>Interactive users to switch to Solaris. Those folks didn't much care for
>being switched from System V to... um... whatever Solaris is.
>
>"Mister Solaris... I knew System V. I used System V from the mid 80s to
> the present day. I loved System V, System V was a friend of mine. And,
> Mister Solaris, you're no System V."
>

Some of us are still running Interactive.  I am up to 4.1.  It still
feels like System V, smells like System V, except for a few minor
differences.  The one I like the most is the long filenames.  Solaris
is kind of like HP/UX 10.X.  Big, slow, clumsy.  HP/UX 9.X OTOH was a
System V system.  I really rue the day we switched...

Jim
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