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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)?
Message-ID: <12197@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 14:23:30 GMT
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In article <868@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>SysV simply
>does not have the capability to provide everything that BSD provides.

Which some see as being a feature ... Bigger does not necessarily mean
better.

>The reverse is easily true.

Clearly not. Without something like Streams, you can't easily add support
for new protocols.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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