Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:10:33 +0100 (CET) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com> To: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Project status Message-ID: <20030205151033.73767.qmail@web13408.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030205065548.X84870-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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OK;
I was misguided by the article then, sorry for the
mistake. I tried an old version of IRIX and it didn't
seem BSD-like so I find it easier to believe you.
FWIW, AIX is very much BSD based. I think they use
less and in 4.1.x they carried the BSD games in their
base system.
cheers,
Pedro.
--- Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> ha scritto: >
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Pedro F. Giffuni
> wrote:
>
> > Hmmm ...
> >
> > The last time I saw an Irix installation CD it
> > included some lines about 4.3BSD UNIX, but on the
> > latest review I read said "For the Unix side of
> > things, IRIX is based on BSD 4.4 ...", see:
> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1859
>
> They may say it, but they're wrong. I keep /usr/bsd
> in my path on Irix
> machines for access to the BSD bits still around,
> but Irix is very much
> SysV.
>
> > There are no UNIXes out there that don't include
> at
> > least some BSD code, and I'm not talking about old
> > UNIX versions. On both IRIX and Darwin, the
> graphic
> > side is unrelated to BSD though.
>
> If you read the copyright notices I posted
> previously, you'll see that
> they infer that the AT&T licensed code includes some
> Berkeley code, which
> is why there's a Berkeley reference in there.
>
> I still have an R3000 Indigo here that works, but I
> don't have a complete
> set of 4.0.x install media (it's currently running
> 5.3), or I'd check and
> see if perhaps 4.x and earlier Irix versions were
> BSD based, but I don't
> think so. The writer of the article referenced
> above was using 6.5.17,
> and should definately have realized he was on a SysV
> based Unix.
>
> Jamie Bowden
>
> --
> "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began
> to take hold"
> Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur"
> Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
>
>
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