From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 15:51:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA17859 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:51:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from virginia.edu (mars.itc.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17847 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 15:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa20314; 4 Apr 96 18:50 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA15469; Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:50:48 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA00861; Thu, 4 Apr 96 18:50:45 EST Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 18:50:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Ron Steele Cc: "Christoph P. Kukulies" , freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is bsdish? In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Ron Steele wrote: > On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > > My understanding, from talking with a person from HP who should know, is that > HP-UX 10.x still uses the old code base - it definately is not > a rewrite, or SYSVR4, they just added another layer over the same old stuff. > This includes the changes to the file system. Also, the BSDish features of > HP-UX do not share code with the SYSV features. It's like two OS's in one. > I have no first hand knowledge of this (I'm just a user), just passing > along rumors. > > Sorry this is off the subject, but HP-UX is a hot-button for me. Same for me. I administer a network consisting of HP's and two PC's. I'd have to say HP-UX is more like 75% of an OS. The other %25 comes in the form of patches. :-( Admittedly, 10.x is much more sensible than 9.x. I guess it just feels like a modern OS. ;-) Of course the lack of Rock Ridge extension support in their cdfs is pretty laughable. Adrian System Administrator for the NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine labs adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/