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

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Wed Sep 15 01:34:49 CDT 2004


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:26:29 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 14 Sep 2004 @ 11:30 -0400, Sandwich Maker said:
> > all the commercial releases - solaris, irix, even aix, are sV-based,
> > with the exception of hpux 10/11.  

I'm not sure, but I think IRIX is like HPUX ... BSD-based with a thick
smear of SysV on top. So thick you wouldn't believe it was originally
BSD-base.

> Also, wasn't SVR4 supposed to be a BSD/AT&T best-of-both-worlds OS?

Well it had BSD-features, but so has every SVRelease ... after all
that's where vi and curses come from.



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