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 -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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