[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
" 
" On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:41:37AM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
" 
" > > > More and more Linux is becoming a synonym for UNIX.
" > > > I really dislike this tendency.
" > > UNIX is an API, toolset, and a set of assumptions and even a few
" > > codified rules.
" > \begin{nitpicking}
" > That is Unix. UNIX is AT&T SysV. ;-)
" > \end{nitpicking}
" 
" And where does one get AT&T SysV?

there's unixware 7.  at&t usl, now owned by caldera, still in summit
nj.  as of ~4 years ago [novell days] about half the original at&t
employees were still there.  uw7 looks a lot like solaris in many ways.
remember at&t owned a big chunk of sun when solaris was being defined.
maybe it'd be more accurate to say solaris looks like unixware...

all the commercial releases - solaris, irix, even aix, are sV-based,
with the exception of hpux 10/11.  the utils may or may not be sV-based
[ksh is] but the kernel most emphatically is not.  they thought the sV
kernel - written with cross-arch portability first and foremost - was
'trash'.  sun probably thinks likewise, as they've had their own
kernel since about 2.4 at least.

hpux 9, like sunos4, was bsd re-engineered to meet the sV api.

" Just so long as you don't try to suggest that NT 3.51 is just as much
" unix as anything else is.

<mischief>  even if you install sfu 3.5 on it and ditch win32? </mischief>
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