From owner-freebsd-ports  Thu Sep 21 16:09:38 1995
Return-Path: owner-ports
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA03103
          for ports-outgoing; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:09:38 -0700
Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA03082
          ; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 16:09:29 -0700
Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA12567; Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:11:13 -0400
From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
Message-Id: <199509212311.TAA12567@shell.monmouth.com>
Subject: Re: FreeNix?
To: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon), freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:11:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199509211600.MAA00421@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 21, 95 12:00:23 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 1204      
Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk

> We are not System V. If we want to be System V stop calling ourselves
> FreeBSD and become FreeUnix (FreeNix anyone? :-)

Well... folks BSD is more or less dead --  at least as far as the commercial
world goes.

I hate to say it -- staying compatible with 4.4 when the rest of the
world has passed it buy is a mistake.

> 
> Seriously. If we want to throw away how /etc/rc works (and it does
> work), then only take from other camps what we need. I have yet
> to see a standard out (ie. all parts work identically) there on the
> 8-10 unix flavors that I work with. So which one are you going to clone?

Well, I've run Solaris,DC/OSx,OS/x,SVR3, SVR2, SVR0, HP-UX, Linux, 
SunOS and FreeBSD...

I'm headed to AIX v3 and 4.x -- which I think is SVR4-ish in startup. 

Looks like there's more of the AT&T stuff out there than you think.
My history is 8-2 not counting the AIX. 

Bill

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bill Pechter                        | The postmaster always pings twice.
 Lakewood MicroSystems               | 17 Meredith Drive,
 908-389-3592                        | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724       
 pechter@shell.monmouth.com          |