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From: davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 versus BSD
Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 BSD
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Date: 23 Jul 90 14:09:07 GMT
References: <179@mixcom.UUCP>
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In article <179@mixcom.UUCP>, llxxkk@mixcom.UUCP (Adam Costello) writes:
|> I recently told a friend that the Amiga 3000 would soon be running AT&T UNIX
|> System V Release 4.0, and he said that I would be much better off with a BSD
|> release.  I asked why, and he gave me the following summary:

  Your friend has obviously never seen even a list of what's in V.4,
much less the real thing. He's made the whole thing up, guy.

|> 	No finger
|> 	No who
|> 	No what

  Hogwash.

|> 	ps works funny (and not nearly as well)

  Same functionality, diferent option names and format. Better choice of
what's displayed by default.

|> 	echo is hacked

  He means it supports the normal escape options as well as the command
line options. That's more functionality.

|> 	the csh is not supported worth dog dooky

  It's based on 4.3BSD, but then I always thought that about csh.

|> 	stty has not half the options
|> 	shell scripts execute with the Bourne Shell no matter what
|> 	the #!<interpreter> line for scripts is not supported

  Lies.

|> 	the csh is crippled (very poor job control)

  That's true, it's based on BSD. jsh is available for sensible job
control.

|> 	the only alternative to the csh is ksh, a worthless hack on sh

  Does he take drugs? ksh has all of the capabilities of csh, although
they do have diferent names and forms in some cases. Even the csh lovers
around here have converted for most shell programming, and some for
interractive use as well.

|> 	BSD network niceties are not supported (like telnet)

  More blatent lies.
|> 
|> In a nut shell, it sucks.  (Why else does Sun ship BSD?)

  In a nutshell, Sun doesn't. They currently ship SunOS, and rev V is
V.4. That's their opinion of the matter.

  I hate to say it, but I think your "friend" has fed you a whole bunch
of lies. You can like V.4 or like BSD, but don't base a decision on a
bunch of total misinformation.