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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:30:26 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX or UNIX-like?
Message-ID:  <20010311093026.B57126@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:57:57PM -0600
References:  <55940645@toto.iv> <15017.38965.569537.276009@guru.mired.org>

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On Friday,  9 March 2001 at 20:57:57 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types:
>> I disagree with "if it doesn't say BSD it is NOT Unix!" Certainly
>> Solaris is a UNIX, and it is based SVR4 (this was not always the case;
>> it used to be a BSD derivative).
>
> Actually, Solaris still contains BSD-derived code. The folks at Sun
> merged SunOS (the colloquial name for Sun OS distributions that
> included SunOS through version 4.x) with SysV to get Solaris (ditto
> for SunOS 5.x, which includes Solaris 2 through 8).

All System V implementations contain lots of BSD code.

Greg
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