Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:06:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" <boconno6@ford.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: An article about Freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192100030.15734-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ron Rosson said; > > There is a small free magazine put out in CO and San Diego. Well in the > edition that came out July 16, 1999 the "I don't do windows" article was > about FreeBSD. Here is the URL: > > http://www.computoredge.com/sandiego/Editorial/idon'tdo.htm > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hmm, not bad; but > > "Bill Joy, who wrote BSD...." > "Suns System V is where the term SysV comes from... " > > seems incorrect to me, I know that Bill Joy had a hand in the origional BSD > but to say he wrote it seems an exaggeration. > > and I thought that SysV stood for the AT&T releases. Yeah, it's the AT&T SysV... System V is the "SV" in SVR2, SVR3, SVR4, etc. However, it was USG (UNIX Support Group) that developed SysV AFAIK. They're certainly the people that released System V Interface Definition, which says a lot. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192100030.15734-100000>