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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.020148.24672@pegasus.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 02:01:48 GMT
References: <9103232223.30@rmkhome.UUCP> <450@jgaltstl.UUCP> <1991Mar27.192257.21635@turnkey.tcc.com>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>No big mystery, UNIX is a not some philosophical notion or abstraction. It
>is a licensed product of AT&T. You want to know if something is UNIX, well
>does it require a license from AT&T, does AIX...yes, does Xenix...yes, does
>4.3BSD...yes.   [...]

Well if you're going to go this particular "legal" route then you'll need
to ask AT&T, not just check their list of licensees.  A number of vendors
use licensed AT&T code but are not allowed by AT&T to refer to their product
in the marketplace as "Unix".

I think Xenix is one of those that can't be called "Unix", AIX probably
should be according to AT&T's stardard for that appelation -- but
there's more clout behind AIX and it's somewhat less deviant.

-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com