From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 31 8:46:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06B615C4F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03452; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:46:15 -0800 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:46:15 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Justin C. Walker" Cc: "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: RE: AIX going BSD In-Reply-To: <199903311632.IAA00613@walker3.apple.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > commercial UNICES are secretly floating on 4.4BSD UNIX - > > The OS that God runs on his PDP/11 up in Heaven. No > > wonder they won't free up their source code. It'd be too > > embarassing. > AIX has always had strong BSD support, from Version 1 on. > They've never hidden it, and in fact, the documentation generally > points out where compatibility is is good or bad. Certainly the > header files from BSD have always been there, particularly for > networking... > Can't speak for all commercial unices, but I'd hazzard a > guess that Solaris and SCO aren't exactly 4.4 BSD. > Actually, it's the other way around... 4.4 BSD swiped a tremendous amount from SunOS 4.X... including the specfs bugs which I fixed in 4.0.3c which I then saw show up again in OSF/1 (which derived it's BSD impl from early 4.4). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message