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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        "Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor" <boconno6@ford.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   re: An article about Freebsd
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907192100030.15734-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907200342.XAA00366@mailfw1.ford.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Brian O'Connor. (CF583173) HO 2nd Floor wrote:

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Rosson said;
> 
> There is a small free magazine put out in CO and San Diego. Well in the
> edition that came out July 16, 1999 the "I don't do windows" article was
> about FreeBSD. Here is the URL:
> 
>   http://www.computoredge.com/sandiego/Editorial/idon'tdo.htm
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Hmm, not bad; but
> 
>    "Bill Joy, who wrote BSD...."
>    "Suns System V is where the term SysV comes from... "
> 
> seems incorrect to me, I know that Bill Joy had a hand in the origional BSD
> but to say he wrote it seems an exaggeration.
> 
> and I thought that SysV stood for the AT&T releases.

Yeah, it's the AT&T SysV... System V is the "SV" in SVR2, SVR3, SVR4, etc.
However, it was USG (UNIX Support Group) that developed SysV AFAIK.
They're certainly the people that released System V Interface Definition,
which says a lot.

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet




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