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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: What is UNIX? Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.163344.15058@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:33:44 GMT
References: <450@jgaltstl.UUCP> <1991Mar27.192257.21635@turnkey.tcc.com> <QWGALK@xds13.ferranti.com>
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In article <QWGALK@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>In fact, UNIX is:
>
>	access alarm brk chdir chmod chown close creat dup exec
>	exit fork getpid getuid getgid ioctl kill link lseek mknod
>	mount open pause pipe read setuid setgid signal stat sync
>	time umask umount unlink wait write
>
>Any operating system that provides these 35 system calls with the semantics
>described in Section 2 of the PRM is UNIX.

This is possibly the worst definition of UNIX I've every seen, hang on
a minute though, VMS with the right lib supports these calls, does this
mean we can stop all the UNIX/VMS wars by saying they're both the same?
If so then I do like this.