Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!mcnc!thorin!oscar!tell From: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: AmigaOS/UNIX - A Suggestion Message-ID: <17764@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 27 Nov 90 04:20:09 GMT References: <6653@chorus.fr> <6944@sugar.hackercorp.com> <8222@gollum.twg.com> <6998@sugar.hackercorp.com> <8284@gollum.twg.com> <7057@sugar.hackercorp.com> <15973@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7100@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Reply-To: tell@oscar.cs.unc.edu (Stephen Tell) Organization: University Of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 25 In article <7100@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > [After quoting Dave] >In article <15973@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >And you think that applications developers are going to keep an A3000UX around >to compile a copy of their code on for the relatively few 68000 ABI machines >out there? If they have a 68000 based machine it'll probably be a Sun: and >SunOS is BSD derived: not System V. In the workstation world BSD is the >standard. (I personally think BSD sucks, but facts are facts) A minor nit, but it seems to be a common misconception. SunOS came from BSD, true, but AT&T and Sun are merging their unixes. SunOS and SVR4 are both really SVR3 + BSD. We have all sorts of machines around here, and I *know* that the SunOS 4.1 I'm using has most of what I rememember from SVR2 and is quite different from the latest 4.3BSD and also different from Ultrix 4.0, I'm not sure if it is correct to say that SunOS 4.1 *is* SVR4, but if it isn't its close and SunOS 4.x, x>1 probably will be. Now if they both only had the neat stuff out of Bell Labs research Unix, like /dev/fd and /proc... Again: SVR4 is not you're father's System V.... >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Tell e-mail: tell@wsmail.cs.unc.edu usmail: #5L Estes Park apts CS Grad Student, UNC Chapel Hill. Carrboro NC 27510