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- From: bill@wafbox.UUCP (Bill Fulton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <327@wafbox.UUCP>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 08:44:09 GMT
- References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com>
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- In article <VIXIE.92Nov14194825@cognition.pa.dec.com> vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
- ># There are a lot of reasons to unify the UNIX world under one roof. You
- ># may prefer BSD over SysV, but let's face facts -> BSD is dead.
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- >Face it, dude, AT&T doesn't know UNIX from a hole in their ass. 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.
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- Emminent death of SysV Unix predicted! :-)
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- (Who's gonna tell Robert, Brian, and the rest of the guys working Version nine
- that they don't know UNIX from "a hole in thier ass"?)
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