Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!tymix!cirrusl!sun505!dhesi From: dhesi@sun505.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)? Message-ID: <868@cirrusl.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 89 23:41:01 GMT References: <1702@naucse.UUCP> <978@mtxinu.UUCP> Sender: news@cirrusl.UUCP Reply-To: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc. Lines: 26 In article <978@mtxinu.UUCP> shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore) writes: >There's a considerable >amount of anti-SysV bigotry, particularly in the academic community. Admittedly there's a lot of SysV-bashing that goes on, but I find that it is quite justified. If you don't have time to repeatedly defragment filesystems, need longer filenames, need links that will work across partitions, wish control characters and tabs would properly echo on the screen, need some way of preventing 400 casual users from using more than 100 K of disk space each, need a decent network mailer without having to acquire and install it yourself, want to be able to use scripts interpreted by different shells, want to be able to use a screen editor to edit message headers when sending mail, want to edit the password file without race conditions, need online manuals for L.sys and uucico, et al ad nauseum, it's hardly bigotry to prefer BSD to SysV. Note that Mt Xinu itself (where Melinda Shore is posting from) has chosen to take BSD and add SysV functionality to it, rather than doing the opposite. I'm sure it is for a very simple reason: SysV simply does not have the capability to provide everything that BSD provides. The reverse is easily true. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi