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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: System V Release 4.0 versus BSD
Message-ID: <13@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 90 20:14:26 GMT
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patl@bodacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Pat Lashley) writes:

>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...)

	Not quite. System V Release 4 is only the latest in a series of
	integrations, viz:
		System V, Release 3 + SCO Xenix ---> System V, Release 3.2
		System V, Release 3.2 + Sun OS  ---> System V, Release 4

	A simplification, of course, but details must wait for another
	day. As for BSD 4.x being "vastly superior", that statement held
	true only for certain requirements, but that issue is now moot.