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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> types:
> > Other companies that went through the BSD->SysV transition changed the
> > name of the OS: Ultrix turned into OSF (among other things), 
> Well, OSF definitely wasn't System V.  Quite the contrary.

True. OSF required a System III license, and tried to be all things to
all people. It did strange things like making "ps <flags>" use BSD
flags, but "ps -<flags>" use SysV flags. DEC went from there to DEC
Unix (whatever that is), but they *changed the name* when the Unix
they started from became radically different. Which is what Sun failed
to do.

	<mike
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