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From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sysv286
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Summary: Just what is Unix?
Message-ID: <450@jgaltstl.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 03:38:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar21.175359.15633@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <9103232223.30@rmkhome.UUCP>
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Organization: The Lafayette Group, St. Louis, MO.
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In article <9103232223.30@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

> been running Coherent since early December, and have been very pleased.
> 
> I still can't believe it's not UNIX.
> 
> 
Which provokes the question.........just *what* is UNIX? Is it
SVID? Is it really a philosophy? Can someone say that AIX, for
instance, is 'UNIX', since some would argue it is really a
proprietary OS based upon an 'old' version of 'UNIX'. If Coherent
is *not* UNIX, as you imply, then what is UNIX?


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