Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ultrix Message-ID: <10290@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:39:52 GMT References: <4228@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 22 I don't know what this has to do with Amiga's, but this is where I saw the question ... Anyway. Ultrix is originally derived from 4.2BSD. In order to get the Ultrix sources you have to have Berkeley liscense. But DEC has changed a bunch of stuff around, apparently because they simply felt like changing stuff around (to lock in customers?), but retained source code compatibility with BSD. (NNTP, News, rn, MMDF, UUCP and some others just compiled and installed w/o hassle on Ultrix when we switched over from MtXinu's 4.3BSD -- and don't tell me it's a step backwards). V3.0 of Ultrix is supposed to be 4.3BSD compatible. I sure hope so! There are also compatibility stuff in there to make the system SVID compliant. This started with some stuff developed by Doug Gwyn of the Ballistics Research Laboratory. But again, DEC's Ultrix group put a lot of effort into the project... -- <-- David Herron; The official MMDF guy of the 1988 Olympics<-- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <-- What does the phrase "Don't work too hard" <-- have to do with the decline of the american 'work ethic'?