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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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