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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP over SunLink X.25, unbundled products
Message-ID: <44300@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: 4 May 88 15:21:58 GMT
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: berkeley compatible

It wouldn't bother me if the various vendors marketing would stop claiming
"BSD compatibility". 

The current BSD release supports the UUCP 'f' protocol and SLIP for TCP/IP,
yet most "compatible" vendors don't support it.

A non-trivial number of customers are surprised when they find things like
that are not supported. Especially those who also have a "real" BSD system.

Some of the vendors rationalize it by saying that they are 4.2BSD compatible.
(including all of the 4.2bsd bugs in some cases). Why don't they
keep System V.1 compatibility? Anyone who really wants BSD compatibility
wants the CURRENT BSD system, but a 5 year old version. They seem
to realize it for System V, why can't they make the same obvious
conclusion.

--rick