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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX vs. Sun Sparc
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Date: 17 Apr 91 15:39:34 GMT
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In article <892@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
                                  [...]
>Sun's UNIX is closer to bsd than Amiga's, however, V.4 has a pretty
>good bsd compatiblity library, so "freeware" and university code ports
>reasonably well to the Amiga.
                                  [...]
Sun runs sysV, just like the Amiga.

But they are running R3 on v4.1.1 (which is what I have on my Sun right now),
which does not have all the BSD extensions that R4 on the Amiga has.

So how can the Sun OS be closer to BSD than the Amiga SVR4?

Seriously, I am a hardware guy, so I may be missing something here, but this
is what I understand to be the case with the SunOS right now (this box is a
3/80).
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