Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Berkeley Unix on PC? Message-ID: <2648@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 20 Nov 89 21:09:49 GMT References: <832@ccssrv.UUCP> <11614@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 15 >>A Sun 3/50 or 3/60 is easily desktop-sized -- it's not much bigger than an >>IBM AT. SunOS is a 4.2 BSD derivative with many SysV extensions. > >Actually, the latest release should be based on UNIX System V Release 4.0, If you're referring to SunOS, the latest release isn't based on S5R4; S5R4's just barely come out, and I don't know that the "final" tapes are out (i.e., the same source tapes that'll be shipped to regular source customers; the "early access" versions are, I think, basically alpha or beta releases). >which merges System V, SunOS (4.2BSD), and Xenix into a single system. (The SunOS from whence the S5R4 stuff came is mostly 4.x stuff, which is more based on 4.3BSD than on 4.2BSD at this point.)