From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 19 21: 6:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD2A14C9A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA15796; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:06:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:06:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: An article about Freebsd In-Reply-To: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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