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Date:      Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:46:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com>
Cc:        "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: RE: AIX going BSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903310844420.3363-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199903311632.IAA00613@walker3.apple.com>

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> > commercial UNICES are secretly floating on 4.4BSD UNIX -
> > The OS that God runs on his PDP/11 up in Heaven.  No
> > wonder they won't free up their source code.  It'd be too
> > embarassing.
>        AIX has always had strong BSD support, from Version 1 on.   
> They've never hidden it, and in fact, the documentation generally  
> points out where compatibility is is good or bad.  Certainly the  
> header files from BSD have always been there, particularly for  
> networking...
>        Can't speak for all commercial unices, but I'd hazzard a  
> guess that Solaris and SCO aren't exactly 4.4 BSD.
> 
Actually, it's the other way around... 4.4 BSD swiped a tremendous amount
from SunOS 4.X... including the specfs bugs which I fixed in 4.0.3c which
I then saw show up again in OSF/1 (which derived it's BSD impl from
early 4.4).



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