Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 versus BSD Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 BSD Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 13:46:36 GMT References: <179@mixcom.UUCP> <3693@auspex.auspex.com> <2059@cirrusl.UUCP> <13399@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <13399@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: > I don't see any signs at all that commercial vendors are going to > distribute systems based on 4.4BSD rather than SVR4. Some may ship > Mach-based systems, but they will be at a competitive disadvantage. Why, if it can be made to conform to the SVID and applicable ABIs? The additional functionality and performance available through the use of a modern kernel instead of a swiss-army-knife coroutine-based hack should more than outweigh the extra development costs. If they can do it without a UNIX source licence it may even be cheaper. And I'd *love* to be able to *not* load all that BSD and Sys V compatibility crud if I don't want to. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`