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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
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- Subject: Re: Sidebar re BSD (in ``Novell to buy USL'')
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 07:00:26 GMT
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- > I keep hearing this quoted, but it ain't really true: it's still a
- >horse-race. Sun is heading for SysV, but IBM is headed the other way.
- >DEC is staying berklazoid, but on the OSF/1 kernel, like IBM.
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- IBM doesn't seem to be committed to the OSF/1 kernel on the
- POWER architecture, although their latest AIX for the PeeCee and 390
- architectures are, I think, OSF/1-based.
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- >Variuous other peope are just talking about moving to one camp or the
- >other.
-
- Err, to which "camps" are you referring? OSF/1 vs. SVR4? "BSD"
- (whatever *that* means) vs. SVR4?
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- How "berklazoid" is DEC's OSF/1? (Hint: if "it has the sockets API"
- makes it "berklazoid", then USL's gone berklazoid....)
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