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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:53:05 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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- References: <Bxt8rG.DE3@fulcrum.co.uk> <1992Nov17.160727.9137@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1egusmINNtu@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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- In article <1egusmINNtu@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
- bcs@terra.cs.waikato.ac.nz (Brent Summers) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.160727.9137@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu
- >(Richard Warner) writes:
- >|DEC is pushing OSF/1, which is has SysV roots, IBM pushes AIX which is
- >|a SysV derivative. They may not call them SysV - but they are much
- >|more SysV than BSD!
-
- Funny, I had thought that OSF/1 was based on Mach and the
- 4.3BSD superstructure atop the Mach kernel. Its reason for
- existence is to provide an alternative to System V.
-
- As for AIX being a SysV derivative, that's news to me, too:
- AIX 1.x for PS/2s and AIX/370 were developed from BSD; AIX
- 3.x for the RS/6000 has as many BSD roots as SysV roots,
- and its programming interface is more POSIX.1 than it is
- either SysV or BSD; AIX/ESA (the successor to AIX/370) is
- another OSF/1 port.
-
- >This highlights the great lie: *if* you define "your operating system" in
- >terms of kernel design and layout (although the contents of the programmers
- >libraries and their exact semantics are much more important IMHO) then
- >neither SVR4 nor any other so-called UNIX is going to be the `standard', or
- >a significant `unifying force', or `the real UNIX' or any of the other neat
- >phrases flying around at the moment.
-
- True enough. The System V PROGRAMMING INTERFACE is,
- however, the de facto standard. Most of the vendors who
- maintain their own OSs instead of porting each new
- version from USL are keeping their systems SVID compilant,
- whether the kernel technology is derived from BSD or
- pre-SVR3 AT&T.
- --
-
- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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