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- From: andrewr@ultrix.EBay.Sun.COM (Andy Roach)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:38:31 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc.
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- References: <1992Nov15.014513.28154@nobeltech.se> <1992Nov15.035135.15514@ra.msstate.edu> <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> <1992Nov17.034806.21754@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. 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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- Interesting...
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- DEC ports SVrN (N=23) to Vaxen to sell back to the Baby Bells.
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- Ultrix has a SYSV "world" from V1.2 (or was it 2.0 ?)
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- AIX is decended from a mix of SVr1-3 & HP/UX has followed the SVID at least
- to SVr3.
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- In Europe System V is the dominant player withICL, Olivetti, Siemens/Nixdorf.
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- Andy
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