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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.034806.21754@ra.msstate.edu>
- Sender: fwp@ra.msstate.edu (Frank Peters)
- Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
- References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:48:06 GMT
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- In article <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) says:
- : In article <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
- : > Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV. MAny of the
- :
- : Really? DEC don't. IBM don't. HP don't really. Who's left who
- : qualify as ``major''? I don't know if SGI are (a) major or (b) Sys V,
- : but it doesn't really matter.
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- OSF/1, AIX, HPUX and Irix (yes, I consider SGI major) are all strong
- descendants of the system V world. Everything from use of directories
- of boot scripts (rather than the BSDish rc.* scripts) to the use of
- inittabs to the man page directory structure to terminfo instead of
- termcap to a SYSV cron to a SYSV line printer system to a tendency
- towards STREAMS points to this.
-
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