Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)?
Message-ID: <2487@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 23 Sep 89 21:17:30 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>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.

These days, I'm not sure BSD is any "bigger" than S5....

>Clearly not. Without something like Streams, you can't easily add support
>for new protocols.

I shall let the people doing the OSI implementation for BSD, and doing
protocol implementations for streams, fight this one out; all I'll say
is that I don't see any evidence to back up a claim stated as bluntly as
"without something like streams...".