Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:57:55 -0800 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com> To: "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RE: AIX going BSD Message-ID: <199903311657.IAA00627@walker3.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <199903311632.IAA00613@walker3.apple.com>
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> From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
> Date: 1999-03-31 08:46:37 -0800
>. ....
> > > 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).
Do you mean SunOS 5.x? I think Solaris 2 == SunOS 5 (not
counting Solaris 7, of course :-}). Also, I wouldn't be surprised
that OSF/1 incorporated some 4.4 stuff, but it really does predate
4.4BSD.
Cheers,
Justin
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