From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 14 02:39:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA19232 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA19217 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 02:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA03362; Thu, 14 May 1998 19:09:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980514190925.U320@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:09:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= Cc: Studded , Dennis Reiter , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNIX 96 (was: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows?) References: <000c01bd7e99$05a4bba0$0200a8c0@Dell> <355A0F1A.30F33317@dal.net> <19980514083724.E3535@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzplns5dwoj=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Thu=2C_May_14=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_11:33:00AM_+0200?= WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 14 May 1998 at 11:33:00 +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> It's been that way for a long time. UNIX 95%. Trick question: which >> of these operating systems may *not* be called UNIX 95%? >> >> FreeBSD >> IBM OS/390 (formerly MVS) >> Microsoft Windows NT >> System V >> >> Hint: only one of them may not. > > What's to stop us from making FreeBSD conform to the standard and gain > the right to use the UNIX name? Money. And maybe a feeling that it would lower the quality of FreeBSD. A lot of these "standards" are a bit silly. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message