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- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.231234.20969@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:12:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
- >Most other major workstation vendors already use SYSV.
- Oh ? Aha, you mean HP and the small guys like SGI and others.
- Neither DEC nor IBM uses system V, just hacked parts, just like
- they use parts of BSD. Dec will deliver OSF/1.
- ( Not that I like Ultrix and AIX anyway, but...)
- >
- >But once you get it ported it will be a lot easier to make it run on
- >the other major systems out there. And, perhaps more importantly,
- >vendors writing software for other major systems out there will have a
- >lot less trouble porting their software to Sun.
-
- I haven't really seen any major system V selling vendors except the PC
- market. Who uses System V ? ( We have Vaxen, SUNs,Destations,RS6000,HP,
- Rational, Xerox, IBM/MVS. No system V)
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- >
- >But its very nice once you do learn it. Adding new devices is easier.
-
- Yeah. Just like they wont be usable unless they are connected and powered
- on when you boot the machine. I'm used to run around with my exabyte &
- cdrom.
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- /Per
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