Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:14:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken MacInnis <spab@hng.clueful.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, "Roger A. Lowe" <rlowepe@nwlink.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are you? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980424150832.670D-100000@acculyte.clueful.org> In-Reply-To: <3540DCE8.7566F4CF@whistle.com>
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On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > If I understand what I am reading, Unix is a generic name for a group
> > > of operating systems that does very much the same thing as MSDOS.
>
> welllll yes and no..
> UNIX is a geneic name for a set of facilityes that occupy the
> same "Ecological niche" as DOS, but they don't do exactly the
> same thing..
Unix (more properly, "UNIX", or the Unix SystemV platform now
under the guidance of Unix System Laboratories) is a trademarked name for
a fully independent operating system, once started by Ken Thompson and
Dennis Ritchie (the C guy) for the PDPs, and now owned (the trademark,
that is) by X/Open (from '93-present, I believe).
-kcm
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