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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:56:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
To:        adrian@virginia.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: what is bsdish?
Message-ID:  <199604041656.LAA06719@shell.monmouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.960404095533.14826E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Apr 4, 96 10:02:05 am

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adrian@virginia.edu wrote

> On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I had a discussion with someone recently about flavors of OSs
> > and I was stating that HP-UX (Version 9.05) is SYSV flavor.
> > It has ps -edf, different kernel build environment, no /etc/rc.
> > He was stating HP-UX *is* BSD. Now what makes a SYSV system, what
> > makes a BSD system?
> 
> 	Well, the Aeleen Frish's "Essential System Administration" uses 
> the presence or absence of /etc/inittab to classify machines.  It's 
> pretty goot all in all. 

> 
> 	BTY, I believe HP-UX 9.x is SRV3 derived whereas HP-UX 10.x is 
> SRV4.  HP-UX does have a bunch of BSDisms though. (Not enough for me 
> thoguh. ;-)

Yup.  Inittab is about the equivalent for checking the gender of a
Unix what genitals are to humans. 


Bill
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