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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:10:01 GMT
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- >> Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV. MAny of the
- >
- >Really? DEC don't. IBM don't. HP don't really.
-
- Sun, arguably, "doesn't really", either, if you consider "us[ing] SYSV"
- to mean "using straight SV off the tape".
-
- AIX 3.x looks more like SV than BSD in several ways, and HP-UX does
- also. (Can you say "/etc/inittab"?) Ultrix is, as I understand it, more
- BSDish than SVish; anybody know what their OSF/1 release looks like in
- that regard?
-
- (The issues here are:
-
- 1) in the "default" programming environment, do those calls with
- incompatibly-different "BSD" and "SV" versions behave in the
- "BSD" fashion or in the "SV" fashion?
-
- 2) in the "default" user environment, do those commands with
- incompatibly-different "BSD" and "SV" versions behave in the
- "BSD" fashion or in the "SV" fashion?
-
- 3) do the "administrative" utilities look more like "BSD" ones,
- "SV" ones, or Something Else?
-
- I put "BSD" and "SV" in quotes because POSIX is making both of them
- change....)
-