From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 24 12:17:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06689 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bbs.elbbs.com (bbs.elbbs.com [209.69.21.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA05756 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:15:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from spab@hng.clueful.org) X-ROUTED: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:15:06 -0500 X-TCP-IDENTITY: Big Mac Received: from acculyte.clueful.org [209.69.21.32] by bbs.elbbs.com with smtp id APANBPCJ ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:13:32 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:14:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Ken MacInnis X-Sender: spab@acculyte.clueful.org Reply-To: bigmac@clueful.org To: Julian Elischer cc: Jonathan Lemon , "Roger A. Lowe" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are you? In-Reply-To: <3540DCE8.7566F4CF@whistle.com> Message-ID: X-Mailer: Pine 3.96 / Linux 2.0.32 (acculyte) X-ReplyIfYouNoticeThis: Please MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --+ Ken MacInnis - http://bigmac.nether.net/ --+ bigmac@elbbs.com bigmac@clueful.org bigmac@wasteland.net --+ give me ambiguity or give me something else. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message