Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:48:23 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> Cc: Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> Subject: Re: what's unix and what's not Message-ID: <20031203214823.GE394@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031203143635.GD394@dds.nl> References: <000701c3b2ef$a617a080$7ffc2dd5@workstation> <20031126012951.GC1068@dds.nl> <3FC410B5.6050807@cyberlifelabs.com> <20031203143635.GD394@dds.nl>
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:36:35PM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:36:43AM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:32:21 -0800 > > Milo Hyson <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> wrote: > > > > > It is my understanding that the Linux kernel was built from scratch. It > > > may be patterned after UNIX, but it wasn't based on it. BSD, on the > > > other hand, is derived (indirectly) from the original work by Ritchie > > > and Thompson. Of course, I may be on crack.... > > > > Yeah, more or less... it was mainly created as a minix clone, iirc. > > >From the data i have Minux was based on Unix v7 somewere in the mid 80 > because a profferor wasn't allowed to use Unix as an example to its > students. > > Even if the code wasn't simply copied then it would still be based on > apperence to Unix and have has serveral times where it imported BSD > code. So way not call it Unix? It proberbly has a legal argument. > > I have a jpg (900K) and a psd (12M) file with every UNIX OS for those > who like to have this. I have instucted my server to protect images (i.e. only serving off certain domains.) I just googled on "unix history" and found this link. Its the same only the quality is a lot better than my jpg and it got the year above. This link bring you to the right date: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#05 -- Alex P.S. Please CC me. Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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