NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/sys/encore/121

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From: [e-mail] (Scott E. Preece)
Subject: Re: Encore old vs. new
In-Reply-To: [e-mail]'s message of Thu, 10 Dec 1992 16:16:44 GMT
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:08:09 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Alan Crosswell) writes:

|   > >The company that you really work for according to those of us that have
|   > >Multimaxen is called Gould.
|   >
|   > I'm curious as to what makes the Multimax a systems solution, while
|   > implying the Series 90 isn't.
|
|   Nothing but culture: 4.3BSD and Mach vs. System V.  People who call them
|   computers rather than systems solutions.
---
Funny, I thought the Sys V orientation came from the Encore side rather
than the Gould side -- the last Gould systems I saw (when this shop was
part of Gould rather than part of Motorola) ran a 4.3-derived UNIX.
My understanding was that the "official" UNIX on the Encore *max systems
was a SysV derivative and that the 4.3BSD+Mach stuff was semi-official
stuff made available to people who insisted...
--
scott preece
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