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From: patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley)
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Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 versus BSD
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Date: 26 Jul 90 01:43:29 GMT
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In article <3488@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
>...
>Sun was also not willing to pay the license fee to AT&T to use Unix, so
>they went out to the universities and got BSD.  Your friend has Sunstroke,
>and is welcome to his/her opinion, but he/she is not much of a professional.
>Anything he/she says regarding the merits of SVR3/R4 and BSD should be taken
>with a LARGE grain of salt.

It wasn't just the licence fee; SVR3 and earlier suffered from a
variety of brain damage which overwhelmed its few good points,
rendering BSD 4.x vastly superior.  Also, the Sun founders came from
BSD environments.

SVR4 is another animal entirely.  It has almost all of the great things
from BSD and SunOS.  (SunOS hasn't been pure BSD for quite a while now...)

The current (4.1) release of SunOS is based upon BSD, with various Sun
originated extentions and SVR4 compatibility mods (i.e. streams based
terminal drivers).  Rumor has it that the next MAJOR release of SunOS
will be SVR4 based with BSD and SunOS extention/compatibility changes.

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