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From: jsadler@misty.boeing.com (Jim Sadler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-720 vs IBM-320 vs Sparc2
Message-ID: <1150072@misty.boeing.com>
Date: 13 Jun 91 01:23:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.151807.670@idaho.uucp>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane BCS Support
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>/ misty:comp.sys.hp / system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) /  7:50 am  Jun  9, 1991 /
>In article <1991Jun8.170028.156828@rrz.uni-koeln.de> se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) writes:
>>
>>|> ourselves have had a lot of problems. The history of HP-UX is much longer,
>>|> but it is SYS5-based as you pointed out, which is a BIG pain.
>>
>>Sad to say, at least the HP-PA version of HP-UX is derived from BSD!
>
>Are you sure it is BSD-derived? All the missing utilities that you cite
	I've been told that it is.
>(and I found missing within about 5 minutes of using HP-UX) would point
>to a SYS5 origin, with some BSD include files added. I can't believe
>HP would deliberately remove things from a BSD port that did not impact
>SYS5 compliance (like 'renice', 'msgs', 'talk', ...), or would they ???
	They would and did.
>"Official" comments, HP? If it is BSD-based, why not still provide the
>BSD ps (and other) commands in another directory, which can be moved to
>the head of the $path/$PATH for users who prefer BSD options?
	To steal and paraprase a line "Inquiring minds want to know"
	I would like know why I've "suffered" all these years.
>Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry
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