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- From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
- Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.174437.18606@gateway.novell.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 17:44:37 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Sender: terry@thisbe (Terry Lambert)
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- In article <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>, ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> knight@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight of the Living Dead) writes:
- |> >
- |> >As I recall when System 5 Revision 4.0 was released, it was described
- |> >(to me, anyway) as an attempt to gain "BSD Compatibility". I'm wondering
- |> >if the reason why AT&T held out sueing BSDI this long is so they could
- |> >claim copyright of BSD's code/style/look/feel/etc while it was still
- |> >popular, and then smash all the competition.
- |>
- |> The only problem with this idea is that SYSVr4 (NOT System 5, that was
- |> another Unix way back) doesn't look like BSD, it still looks like SYSV to
- |> the normal user, ie you have horrid syntax for the ps utility where you need
- |> to use a hyphen in front of the arguments and the devices... yuck!
- |>
- |> The only real thing I've seen which is BSD is the socket library (not
- |> complete) and the BSD compatibility library which is not complete either.
-
- Things AT&T owes to Berkeley:
-
- 1) UFS
- 2) VFS
- 3) Memory management strategies
- 4) Job control
- 5) csh
- 6) TCP/IP
- 7) telnet/ftp/finger/et al.
- 8) mail/sendmail/smtp
- 9) termcap
- 10) pty's
-
-
- The top 10 list, to name a few.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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