[rescue] SVR3 man pages

Andrew Jones andrew at jones.ec
Sat Feb 26 07:21:36 CST 2011


On 02/25/2011 09:52 PM, Scott Quinn wrote:
> " Wasn't SCO Unix, circa 1993, still SVR3?
>
> i recall something like that.  they were advertising '4.2' when what
> they really had was sVr3.2.4.2..
>
>
> I think it was V3R2 up through OpenServer 5. For OpenServer 6 didn't they port
> all the SCO cruft into the main SysV.4 tree, call it V.5 and pretend it was an
> improvement?
>
>
> In any case I'm not sure I'd trust the purity of the pages. SCO danced to
> their own fiddle.
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OSR "6" was UnixWare bundled with the OpenServer kernel personality 
stuff.  They had been trying to sell OSR compatibility on UnixWare for 
ages, but no one was biting.  I guess they figured some marketing 
sleight of hand would push some customers over the edge.


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