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Date:      Thu, 14 May 1998 07:00:23 -0700
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Studded <Studded@dal.net>, Dennis Reiter <mcneills@inw.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX 96 (was: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows?)
Message-ID:  <19980514070023.51259@mooseriver.com>
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On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 11:33:00AM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes:
> > It's been that way for a long time.  UNIX 95%.  Trick question: which
> > of these operating systems may *not* be called UNIX 95%?
> > 
> >   FreeBSD
> >   IBM OS/390 (formerly MVS)
> >   Microsoft Windows NT
> >   System V
> > 
> > Hint: only one of them may not.
> 
> What's to stop us from making FreeBSD conform to the standard and gain
> the right to use the UNIX name?
> 

About $100,000US. I have never seen the test suite but I have feeling that
it includes streams which we do not support. I just don't think it would
buy us much.


Josef

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