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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Jargon File Editorial Philosophy
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Date: 7 Dec 90 15:14:41 GMT
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In article <2776@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> By the way, please stop assuming that there's anything called UNIX any
> more.  There are lots of OSs derived from UNIX.  They all have their
> own names, e.g. System V, Xenix, BSD, Ultrix, ESIX, Mach, and probably
> others.  None of them is really UNIX, and none of them should be called
> UNIX.

I disagree. They should all be called UNIX, as should MINIX, Coherent, and
anything else that supplies the important system calls in section 2 of the
seventh edition manual (the seventh edition because that was the last time
there was a single official UNIX outside AT&T).

UNIX is not an operating system. It is a family of operating systems that
share a common programmer interface. And AT&T can verb it for all I care.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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