Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 12:11:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: edd@aic.net Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UNIX System Message-ID: <199605131611.MAA21297@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199605130942.NAA09869@aic.net> from "edd@aic.net" at May 13, 96 01:42:16 pm
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> > > > Hallo, > > > >> Yes and no. FreeBSD is derived from UNIX, but as of a couple of years > > >> ago, the term "UNIX" is a trade mark, not a description of an > > >> operating system. As a result, FreeBSD many not be called UNIX. I'm > > It is trademark and it is name of an operating system. > Of course, FreeBSD doesn't certified by X/Open, but it doesn't matter, IMHO. > > > >> still wondering, however, whether it may not be called "Berkeley > > >> UNIX". > > I think there are no such thing as "Berkeley UNIX". If you refer to > BSD, you have to write BSD (and indicate release), > not UNIX. Because "UNIX" originally referred > to System V, again, IMHO. Didn't UNIX (tm) refer to the Unix (tm) Operating System from the time it went from UNICS to Unix. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win96 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.
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