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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!geoff From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems installing cnews/nn Message-ID: <Bywnoq.IyC@world.std.com> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die References: <1992Nov27.153032.10611@uropax.contrib.de> <1fav2bINN2ie@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Nov30104256@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByK57p.3M6@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Dec4134323@cognition.pa.dec.com> <Byrvwu.155@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Dec5150856@cognition.pa.dec.com> <ByuEI8.G67@world.std.com> <VIXIE.92Dec6090950@cognition.pa.dec.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1992 20:02:49 GMT Lines: 18 Paul A Vixie: >Well, it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it's >labelled "duck", but if you want me to call it a tree, I guess "ok". By your own admission, it doesn't walk like a duck, it doesn't quack like a duck, and it's labelled "vmduck" (which apparently means a duck to fat or stupid too fly). >That kernel's name happens to be "/vmunix" >and has a lot of Bell Labs UNIX code in it, so I call it "UNIX". The change of name should have tipped you off; it's 4BSD, not UNIX. They are distantly related. Unfortunately, 4BSD has more non-Bell code than Bell code in it. A lot more. -- Geoff Collyer world!geoff, world.std.com!geoff ``People don't need to read the standards'' - head of the ISO computer group