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Date:      Thu, 14 May 1998 11:50:56 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UNIX 95 (was: UNIX 96 (was: Internet Exploder inseparable from Windows?))
Message-ID:  <19980514115056.V320@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805140216.WAA00168@shell.monmouth.com>; from Bill/Carolyn Pechter on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 10:16:00PM -0400
References:  <19980514083724.E3535@freebie.lemis.com> <199805140216.WAA00168@shell.monmouth.com>

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On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 22:16:00 -0400, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 13 May 1998 at 14:22:34 -0700, Studded wrote:
>>> Dennis Reiter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You mean Microsoft hasn't claimed "Unix" as it's own and
>>>> changed it's meaning?
>>>
>>> 	Actually I heard from a reliable source that MS sought and received
>>> "unix" certification for NT from whichever group owns the trademark this
>>> week.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Greg
>
> I know it's FreeBSD... but has WinNT made Unix95 certification?

Yup.  It doesn't say much about UNIX 95, does it?

> is my old SVR2 Unix95?

No.  But that's not really fair.

Greg
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