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From: emike@richp1.UUCP (E. Mike Durbin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's (really 3b1 unix)
Message-ID: <44@richp1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 18:39:22 GMT
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Reply-To: emike@richp1.UUCP (E. Mike Durbin)
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Organization: Rich Inc., Chicago
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>The bottom line is that there is no System V unless you mean the one
>from at&t and you better give a date or we still won't know which one
>you mean.
> ...
>In other words saying system V is about as specific as saying UNIX.
>Agreed, they are a standard of sorts but there are *so* many of them.
>Like, SVID, SVVS, sV, sV.0, sV.1, sV1.0, etc, etc, and of course the
>3b2 version of each of these is different from the 3b5 version is
>different from the....

How true...

Except for SVR3, which is as close to the same as you can get on any
machine you find it on.  (Or, at least it is now, 'till someone breaks
it too :-).

Lets see, I need 2 more lines to get this out.
one more
ok.
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