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- From: rmf@chopin.cs.columbia.edu (Robert M. Fuhrer)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- In-Reply-To: scoggin@opus.ee.udel.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:38:56 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Columbia Univ.
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:32:06 GMT
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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.
-
- Not that this particularly belongs to comp.unix.solaris, but I thought I'd
- corrrect a few things just for drill.
-
- It doesn't sound much like you've seen an RS/6000 running AIX. It does have
- rc.{nfs,tcpip,net}, and various other BSD-like things you mentioned. E.g., AIX
- relies on a proprietary database for its on-line hypertext documentation.
- They've re-written man(1) so that it both knows about those and the usual man
- page directories.
-
- Actually, to be more accurate, for some things it uses the underlying "Object
- Data Manager" as an info repository, e.g., what TCP/IP services are currently
- running, what file systems exists, and so on. The "normal" files are there only
- for compatibility. If you change them, you typically have to run a program to
- inform the daemons that things have changed.
-
- In short, AIX is quite unlike BSD and Sys V under the covers. If you want the
- covers on, it still may be less like them than you want. On the other hand,
- some of the differences are appealing...
- --
-
- -- Bob
-