On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:04:29AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > A. there is no "BSD SunOS". there is "BSD", and there is "SunOS". i assume > > you're refering to SunOS > > No need to be harsh.
i think you're confusing 'harsh' and 'precise'. > SunOS 4 was based on BSD, and SunOS 5+, aka SunOS 5 is marketoidish - an after-thought. there is SunOS, and there is Solaris. all the other names were created by marketing people as an after-thought, in order to blurr the fact that sun is replacing a stable operating-system by an incompatible and unstable operating system (i'm talking about solaris 2.1, 2.2, not about current solaris versions). > Solaris 2+, is basedon SysV. And I am pretty sure you know this. > I find it very reasonable and expressive to say "BSD SunOS" as a short. while i find it confusing - only people who know the history of sun from around a decade ago, will understand that this does not refer to a new dialect of BSD (and despire the fact that SunOS was based on BSD, and was source-level compatible with BSD to the kernel level, it's not BSD as you an i know it ;) ). -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
