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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2500UX and AmigaDOS
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Date: 28 Nov 89 04:41:33 GMT
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In article <4930@amiga.UUCP> jimm@batgirl.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) writes:
>In article <126@amix.commodore.com> ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>)This irks me.  What do you want that is not in SysVR4?  If it is
>)reasonable I'll spend the time and put it in.
>
>There are a lot of us happy Berkeley/Sun users out here who are
				      ^^^
>sort of in a cloud as to what VR4 has and doesn't, largely because
>people have been trying to foist off VR3 with csh and vi as "Berkeley
>Enough."
>Your affirmative response will bring me great peace.

Sun had a lot to say as far as what went into SYSVR4. Summarizing:

SYSVR4 = SYSVR3 + BSD + XENIX

The only thing people will miss is MACH-type multiprocessing, which is what
OSF has decided it wants for OSF/1.

So, have peace (and it's Christmas time, anyway :^)

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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