Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tope From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ultrix Message-ID: <3963@enea.se> Date: 27 Sep 88 12:00:08 GMT References: <4228@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden Lines: 36 UUCP-Path: uunet!enea!tope In article <4228@louie.udel.EDU> rsine@nswc-wo.arpa writes: : :In one of the messages (I deleted the message ID) Dan "Sneakers" Schein :writes: :: I use mine to connect with Ultrix 2.2 on a daily basis. Ultrix is lisenced :: from Berkley but im not sure how close (or far) BSD 4.3 and Ultrix 2.2 may be. :: wpl@burdvax has been keeping records of the success & failures on using Amiga :: UUCP. : :Dan, perhaps you used a bad choice of words (i.e. licensed from Berkley), or :you are mistaken. When I worked for DEC they came out with a product called :Ultrix and that was their version of Unix. They (DEC not Berkley) license :that product. I am not a Unix person (VMS is my OS of choice), but I did :work with and know some of the Ultrix people and according to them Ultrix is :Unix and more. Now, how close that is to BSD 4.3 I don't really know without :asking them (which I could do). I know I'm making a moot point but, I just :don't want anyone to get confused. : :Ran : :The thoughts and ideas presented here are mine, who else would take credit :for this obsurdity anyhow? Well, probably it's so that DEC bought a full source code license from Berkley, which entitles them to make an implementation on a machine, add whatever they want, and sell the result. Our company did so and added SysV-compatibility the same way as DEC also did, about a year later. I have worked on some Ultrix systems, and from (I think) version 1.3 they start to seem more like SysV-based systems with BSD-comptibility added. Sorry to follow this up in this (still wrong) newsgroup, but I don't know where it really belongs.