[geeks] q: good source for leather book bag?

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 14:26:16 CDT 2009


sammy ominsky wrote:
> On 03/06/2009, at 20:33, der Mouse wrote:
> 
>> Darwin is not really a BSD; it's more like Mach with a Unix emulation
>> layer (probably more BSD than SysV Unix, admitted).  To a naove user,
>> it feels like a Unix - to approximately the same users who have trouble
>> telling Red Hat from AIX from 4.3BSD.
> 
> The thing is, Leopard *IS* UNIX, just as much as AIX, Tru64, Solaris, 
> etc, whether you believe it or not.
> 
> It may not conform to your impression of what UNIX is supposed to be, 
> and I understand how you feel, but it conforms to both SUSv3 and POSIX 
> 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads.  That 
> makes it officially UNIX.

Isn't that pretty close to the same way Microsoft claimed Windows 2000 
was Unix?

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