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- From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
- Subject: Re: Is your NeXT secretly running BSD ? (was: PGP v2.1 and NeXT)
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- Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
- References: <CEDMAN.92Dec13134222@capitalist.nts.uci.edu> <1992Dec13.204623.27480@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:30:24 GMT
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- gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
- >Didn't I read that NS 3.0 is completely BSD4.3 compatible?
-
- Don't believe everything you read. The kernel i/f is close but not
- identical. At the user level there are things missing and a lot of
- additions (fine by me :-) The admin level has NetInfo which makes life
- very interesting.
-
- >Also, Suns are BSD machines but run SunOS.
- SunOS is a heavily modified version of BSD. There are many
-
- >So, BSD must be a standard that can be layered on top of different
- >operating systems (e.g. NT, SunOS, and Mach).
-
- You could say that. It is theoretically possible to implement one
- system over another OS but is often impossible or just not worth the
- effort (i.e. too hard to make it efficient.)
-
-
- --
- Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)
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