From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 2 18:53: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E926423B for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max0-25.gbis.net [207.228.60.25]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01916; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA91070; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:53:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <00ee01bf6df1$ca59ec60$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: Subject: Re: BSD = Unix ??? Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:52:41 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've been trying to find a good, accurate, succinct definition of the >relationship for some time. I'm still working on it. The best I can >see at the moment is that BSD is one of the UNIX family, maybe a >disowned son :-) I think "member of the UNIX family" probably comes closest to describing the situation. And what an intertwined family it is, looking at Figures 1.1 and 1.2 (The UNIX system family tree) from _The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System_. --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message