Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!devnull Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Subject: Re: X Message-ID: <1991Mar2.005407.2663@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: Ziebmef home away from home References: <4PU1ZWG@taronga.hackercorp.com> Distribution: alt Date: 2 Mar 91 05:54:07 GMT Approved: cks@v10.future.toronto.edu Lines: 25 peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: | Nah, that's spelled "SysV" or "4BSD". There was once a small, lean, | operating system called UNIX. But that was then. It's grown a hundred | times since 1979, without becoming a hundred times more useful. Depends on where you look. V7 has developed and flourished inside Bell Labs, and begot in succession V8, V9, and now V10 (manuals available through Saunders Colledge Publishing; UNIX RESEARCH SYSTEM TENTH EDITION Volume I and II, ISBN 0-03-047532-5 and 0-03-047529-5 respectively). Versions of V9 have even been spotted running outside of Bell Labs, and maybe someday a V10 version will be as well. | Ob. hack: System V IPC. Ecch. There is a scurrilous rumour going around that says the reason there are three sepperate IPC mechanisms in SysVoid is that three sepperate politically powerful groups inside AT&T came up with their own IPC mechanism for System III, and all of them insisted that *their* version be in System V. I can believe it. -- V9: the kernel where you can do fgrep */*.[ch] and not get "Arguments too long". cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks