Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:49:37 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Anthony Chavez <magus@magus.users.xmission.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD v. Unix Message-ID: <20000708174937.J11249@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000708021231.B36356@magus.users.xmission.com> References: <20000708021231.B36356@magus.users.xmission.com>
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On Saturday, 8 July 2000 at 2:12:31 -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: > Fellow advocates: > > I don't remember where exactly, but I have seen FreeBSD referred to as > the "last true Unix." Is this a wholly accurate description? No. I don't think it's even partially accurate for any reasonable definition of "partially". Recall that it shares no code with AT&T UNIX up to and including the Seventh Edition. > Would it be correct to refer to *BSD in such a manner? No. In fact, we don't want to refer to "*BSD" at all: it sounds divisive. BSD without the '*' looks a lot better. As to "the last true UNIX": that way Holy Wars lie. I've most often heard it applied to the Seventh Edition. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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