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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <15510@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 19:19:37 GMT
- References: <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com>
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- >USL is
- >even less clueful. System V UNIX is dead. The market opened their eyes
- >and told them "you can't possibly be serious!" and they adopted BSD as
- >the only way to keep selling licenses. POSIX won the interface battle,
- >not SVID. BSD won the users over. If you think a new user would take
- >System V.[01234] seriously as a competitor to Windows/NT or BSD, you are
- >totally out of your freaking mind.
-
- Umm, from your claim that "they" - presumably meaning "USL" - "adopted
- BSD", you are asserting that "System V.4" actually *is* BSD, so the
- statement that
-
- If you think a new user would take System V.[01234] seriously as
- a competitor to Windows/NT or BSD, you are totally out of your
- freaking mind.
-
- should be changed to refer to "System V.[0123]".
-
- (And from your list of "You mean I'll have to" list, you're clearly
- enumerating AT&T/USL bogosities that they've abandoned, with the
- possible exception of the shell script, not enumerating stuff that's the
- case with *current* SV - SVR4 supports file systems with long file
- names, provides a sockets interface to TCP/IP, supports X11, and
- provides the C shell for those people perverse enough to like it :-) -
- so, again, you are aware that SVR4 isn't like earlier SV's.)
-
- (Oh, and if SV sucks so badly, how come you wrote a "cron" that behaves
- like SV's "cron"? :-))
-