Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!ksand@apple.com From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Cave Men and Dinosaurs Message-ID: <13672@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 26 May 91 23:19:25 GMT References: Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple, DTS Platforms Group Lines: 25 In article , numb@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matt Newman) writes: > > Flame On: > > I'm getting more and more fed up of trying to bring software from usenet > up on our A/UX machines. So few things compile without considerable massaging > I type `uname -a` and get :- > A/UX pinkruby 2.0 SVR2 mc68030 > Help! When are Apple going to make a serious comitment to Unix and bring their > OS upto date, alot of vendors are now shipping SVR4 and Apple is very proud > to manage to ship SRV2 :-(. Hehe, I remember when I was a young engineer and always complained that the vendor did not ship the latest, flashy version. Little did I know. If you check the features and compare with SysV.4 you will notice that there are things missing, but not that many as you would expect... As for porting, you need to sweat in the UNIX world; the quality of the public domain code is usually the main issue concerning porting activities, and I don't think many are writing POSIX compliant PD code yet. As for SunOS, I remember one nice sunny day in Sydney, when we found out that the SysV emulation libraries were badly broken in SunOS, and we had to rewrite the i/o parts of our app in front of the customer for the port... Kent Sandvik, DTS Platforms Group, Apple