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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>
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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.