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From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: System V R 3.1,3.2,3.3, 4 ?  What's the diff ?
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.175841.18445@hq.demos.su>
Date: 26 Oct 90 17:58:41 GMT
References: <1990Oct23.015640.23819@melb.bull.oz.au> <1303@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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In article <1303@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>When I asked "what's new with SVR4", the answer I got was:
>       1-3) Compare AT&T SVR3, Berkeley 4.4BSD, SunOS-4.1, Xenix/386
>	4) Add up all the new features and you have System V Release 4.

... and all misfeatures I think. Do you really think someone
can read 40 volumes of documentation in order to enjoy all
new features of V.4? Extra feature is NOT a good, I still think
the best Unix is v6. Why have they forgotten "KISS"?

Vadim Antonov
DEMOS, Moscow, USSR