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- From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.195209.2512@bradley.bradley.edu>
- Organization: Bradley University
- References: <1992Dec19.221627.20632@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec21.152516.9202@sdc.com>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:52:09 GMT
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- In <1992Dec21.152516.9202@sdc.com> emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes:
- > >Now, Sun is abandoning SunOS!!!
- >No they are not. I'm happily running SunOS 5.1 now.
- >THEY ARE ABANDONDING A *HEAVILY* modified version of 4.2BSD
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- Which is what SunOS has come to mean.
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- >for a much more open, much more standard BSD/SYSV merged OS.
-
- Right. I'll believe that it actually manages to merge the two
- when I see Solaris 2.1 working. Not that I've seen it broken, but
- after all the brouhaha over 2.0 and my experience with AT&T's crap
- SVR4 (in which very few of the BSD utilities work) I'm pretty skeptical.
- --
- Pete Hartman Bradley University pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
- don't feed the creepsters
-