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From: jep@mtiame.oz (Jesper Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Multifinder - Just the Facts, man.
Keywords: Macs, uh-oh
Message-ID: <226@mtiame.oz>
Date: 4 May 90 03:34:06 GMT
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In article <6465@umd5.umd.edu> steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green) writes:
>In article <222@mtiame.oz> jep@mtiame.oz (Jesper Peterson) writes:
>]SVR2 + berkeley = proprietary = big trouble.
>
>That is a totally unfounded statement.  AT&T System V relase 4 has includes
>some of the very same berkleyisms that AUX does.

some != all

>
>Wow, SVR4 is not proprietary..??..  Dont tell AT&T that!  :-)

Proprietary in the sense that only Apple use it. SVR4 is used across
more hardware platforms.

>
>]Write anything even remotely clever for this and it becomes a real
>]headache to port "back" to standard SYSV.
>
>No more of a headache than it would be to "port" from SVR4 or BSD back to SVR2.

I was referring to porting "forward". plain SVR2 -> SVR4 is easy, AUX->SVR4
is not so.

Your wording is appropriate when you say BSD *back* to SVR2. I used to work
on a BSD (actually SunOS, proprietary again, but some of this is now in
SVR4, this argument is getting complicated, not to mention pointless :-)
now I work on SVR2 (soon R3). Porting my favourite programs to this system?

ARGH! ( and no filename completion!!! )

>
>]>I would be curoius to see a list of things that R4 (or AMIX) has that AUX 2.0
>]>does not.  I tend to believe that that list would be almost empty.
>]
>]Streams?
>
>AUX has streams.

Just asking.

End of my story (e-mail please).

Jesper.
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