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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.233253.14099@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 23:32:53 GMT
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- kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes:
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-
- >(also, in that last question, can I get a copy of dump that runs on
- >solaris 2.0?)
-
- There is one. There is also a /usr/ucb that contains BSD-type commands on
- Solaris 2.0. Sun recommend including this directory in the path AFTER
- /usr/bin [which has Sys V commands] as a migration aid.
-
- >Last but not least.. someone please ask sun why they have done this
- >henous act to us :-)
-
- Because in the first several years of selling Suns, the lovely folks at DEC,
- IBM, etc would all say "Don't buy UNIX, there isn't a standard one". So to
- ensure that UNIX and Sun workstations were successful, Sun went an ensured
- that there was a standard.
-
- Make sense? I thought so... :-)
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