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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 13:49:30 -0400
From:      Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@altavista.net>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 4.3 is UNIX?
Message-ID:  <20010611134930.E581@hal9000.servehttp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010606010421.B1421@gaia.home.rdls.net>; from rdls@rdls.net on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:04:22AM %2B0100
References:  <20010604204601.S49449@hal9000.servehttp.com> <20010606010421.B1421@gaia.home.rdls.net>

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Richard,

> > What caught my eye right away was the new legend on the CD case, which
> > reads
> > 	"A Full High-performance 32/64 bit UNIX Operating System"
> 
> FWIW, the word "UNIX" (in isolation) has always appeared somewhere on the
> CD case, at least since I started subscribing (2.2.6-RELEASE)

You're correct. On the back there is the description of FreeBSD as "a ...
UNIX-compatible operating system", going back to at least 2.2.7.

While the OpenGroup may not be completely happy with "UNIX-compatible", it
is a world of difference between this and calling an operating system
"UNIX".


-Andrew-
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