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- From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: I wonder, did AT&T backstab BSDI?
- Keywords: AT&T speculation lawsuit BSDI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.182141.10399@prism.poly.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:21:41 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.153750.8395@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Jul29.144859.8222@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Polytechnic University, New York
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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
- >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
-
- SVR4 is System V, Release 4. System 7 was an early version of Unix
- way back (in the pre-dawn era :-) )
-
- >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!
-
- Actually, this would make "ps" *consistent* with other unix utilities. In
- general, options are preceded by a dash, arguments to those options aren't.
-
- >
- >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.
- >
-
- What about POSIX signals? They are derived from Berkeley signals.
- The old System V (pre- R4) methods of handling signals was brain-dead.
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- Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu
- Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing
- Polytechnic University
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