Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Unix names (Was: CBM's GUI for UNIX (AMIX?)) Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 90 00:45:16 GMT References: <14009@snow-white.udel.EDU> Sender: news@decwrl.dec.com Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 34 In-reply-to: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu's message of 15 Mar 90 19:04:29 GMT In article <14009@snow-white.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes: On the subject of Commodore Amix, I think that they are going to drop the name 'Amix' and just call it Unix. Apparently, since it is a full implementation of Unix System Vr4 they can do this. Other PC Unix implementations are not full implementations I think more likely AT&T has loosened their binary resale licensing. AT&T used to forbid such licensess from calling their product "Unix", under any conditions. I've heard this has changed. ...for example AUX (Apple Unix) for the Mac and AIX (IBM's Unix). Other implementations are pretty complete; at least as far as what was being sold when they started. AIX, for example, has X, Andrew hooks, NFS, and pretty much everything else you'd want. Ultrix is similarly complete. SunOS ditto, and indeed SysVr4 added code from SunOS in the "AT&T/SunOS merge". I don't know what these Unix implementations lack, but apparently they aren't totally Unix; forgive me, I do not use Unix and have had no exposure to it. You're forgiven. What they probably lack is a modern license when they started, coupled with unwillingness to change names in midstream for marketing reasons.