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- From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
- Subject: Re: Is your NeXT secretly running BSD ? (was: PGP v2.1 and NeXT)
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:46:23 GMT
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- Carl Edman writes
- > In article <Q3CVBV64@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
- (Erik Oliver) writes:
- > And, I still stand by my claim that the NeXT is a Mach machine, but I
- > can see how my statement was misinterptreted. I agree that the NeXT,
- > has BSD interfaces and BSD programs, not SysV programs and SysV
- > interfaces. But, at the core it is a Mach Kernel which is very
- > different in its features and design than just saying BSD.
- >
- > Even if technically NeXT is not running "real" BSD, for all practical
- > purposes the NeXT OS is as compatible with machines running "pure" BSD
- > as those machines are among themselves. This includes most areas of
- > the kernel which a kernel driver would be interested in.
-
- Didn't I read that NS 3.0 is completely BSD4.3 compatible?
- Also, Suns are BSD machines but run SunOS.
- So, BSD must be a standard that can be layered on top of different
- operating systems (e.g. NT, SunOS, and Mach).
-
- --Glenn
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