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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)?
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Date: 24 Sep 89 14:29:22 GMT
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In article <890@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

 (about SVR4)
>I suspect it will be SunOS, based on BSD as always, with
>more features added.

No, it's not. It might look like BSD if you're running with a BFS (Berkeley
File System) and the BSD-style tty driver (supplied by a streams module)
but it's really a System V kernel with lots of BSD and SunOS features and
user-level utilities added.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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