From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!daemon@okc-unix.arpa Newsgroups: net.micro Title: none Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1263 Posted: Wed May 4 12:41:13 1983 Received: Tue May 17 06:06:34 1983 From: Daemon >From emmwm Wed May 4 13:58:05 1983 remote from uokvax Subject: Re: Someone is using UNOS To: tinker!info-micro.brl@UDel-TCP Having just had a run-in with some UNOS users, I feel boliged to comment. First, UNOS is supposedly system-call compatable with Unix III. This excludes a LOT of things that you expect to get with your Unix, like the stdio library (or one of them, anyway). To solve this, CRDS has supposedly bought a real Unix OEM license from WECO, so that (in the future) they will be distributing all the things that come we know and love. This should also pick up UUCP. Finally: Yes, the UNOS shell is not compatable with any of the `standard' Unix shells. This doesn't strike me as a problem. More importantly, they have taken this chance to decrypt the names of the standard Unix commands. This is a major win. Since this automatically makes shell scripts not work, changing the shell is even less painfull. And for those of you addicted to the short names that Unix uses, there is an alias mechanism in the shell so you can make your private environment as ugly as you wish... (Aliasing is a VERY nice feature in and of itself, anyway.)