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From: n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Why all of this NeXT talk?
Summary: The NeXT's OS is *not* BSD/SVRx
Keywords: A3000UX NeXT stop rediculous
Message-ID: <11995@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 91 20:29:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1531@pdxgate.UUCP>
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In article <1531@pdxgate.UUCP> hal@eecs.UUCP (Aaron Harsh) writes:
>In article <1991Feb9.083920.27791@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) writes:
>>The Unix port running on the NeXT machine is not actually Unix.
>
>  Sure it is.  BSD is also a standard.  (Actually, NeXT uses Mach which
>is BSD + some extras)
>

The NeXT's OS is *not* pure enough to be called BSD.  There seem to be
a lot of reports indicating that porting existing software (designed
for BSD boxes) is less than easy due to the differences.

Mach != BSD

--Daryl Biberdorf,  n177ac@tamuts.tamu.edu