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> > Sun actually went SYSV(-ish) sometime after SunOS 4.1.3.
> 
> Heh.
> 
> mount -o grpid
> 
> Is required on 4.1.3 to force BSD instead of SYSV directory
> inheritance semantics.  This SYSV-ism predates Solaris.

Okay, so where's the rest of it?

Or... need I counter with a feature by feature comparison?

/usr/bin/echo on SunOS has BSD semantics.
[... etc etc etc lines and lines of BSD semantics ...]
Directory inheritance has SYSV semantics.

One feature does not make a system into SYSV.

"Geeeeeeeez!"

... JG