On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:35:32AM +0200, guy keren wrote: > > 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 ;) ).
I think many (most?) people on this list know more-or-less this piece of history, but I agree it can be confusing (especially for potential googlers). Sorry :-) -- Didi ================================================================= 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]
