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From: allender@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX compliance?
Keywords: AIX, Sys V, BSD
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Date: 12 Apr 91 14:15:03 GMT
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In article <977@vax.cs.athabascau.ca>, willis@cs.athabascau.ca (Tony
Willis) writes:
|> Can AIX be considered either Sys V or BSD Unix compliant? I gather
|> that its really neither, and that IBM has decided to essentially
|> develop its own independent version of Unix, but I'd appreciate
|> comments from those who are more in the know than I am.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Tony Willis
|> twillis@drao.nrc.ca

As far as I know, AIX is neither BSD or SYSV, and is both BSD and SYSV.  I have
installed applications where I have had to define BSD, and others where I have
had to define SYSV, and still others where there was a #define RS6000.

Go figure....this kind of thing is really annoying....

-Mark Allender
-University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
-Conversation Builder Project
-allender@cs.uiuc.edu