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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD [3.1] is Unix ??? (Was: Re: 3.1 Release splash image)
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On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Tom wrote:

> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> 
> > Any idea what would be involved in getting to be "Real UNIX"?  I
> > mean, besides the obvious license fee to X/Open.
> > 
> > Is there some validation suite that would have to be passed?  How
> > close are we?
> 
>   It will never happen.  I don't the validation suite is freely available,
> and it costs a lot of money for an official test.  So the best you can do
> is eyeball the spec and eyeball the code and figure it out for yourself.

Not only does the validation process cost money, but passing
requires Motif/CDE.  (For the workstation Unix at least).

-john



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