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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: 4BSD is dead???
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Date: Tue, 10-Jun-86 02:49:40 EDT
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> >  What about a merger?  I work on a Masscomp system which is really pretty 
> >  nice: they have this universe stuff in which both 4.2 & SysV system calls
> >  can be supported...
> 
> ...As far as the system calls... what ever happened to the idea that you
> should do things once, right, instead of supporting every possible
> variation?

"What happened" is that people wrote code to use the 4.2 socket system
calls, or the S5 IPC system calls (to cite a couple of your favorite
bugbears), and those people aren't in a mood to change their code to use
some Wonderful New set of system calls which Do Things Right.  I agree that
there's a lot of crap in all current versions of UNIX (I'll bet there's even
some crap in V8 if you look hard enough) but I don't think you can abolish
it all by fiat.
-- 
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)