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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)?
Message-ID: <11148@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Sep 89 04:47:24 GMT
References: <1702@naucse.UUCP>  <978@mtxinu.UUCP> <868@cirrusl.UUCP> <2486@auspex.auspex.com> <890@cirrusl.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <890@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>However, I doubt that S5R4 will really be System V, any more than SunOS
>is System V.  I suspect it will be SunOS, based on BSD as always, with
>more features added.

Why should we care what you "doubt" and "suspect" when it's all guesswork?
If you attended any of the SVR4 presentations, such as the AT&T BOF at the
Baltimore Usenix, it would have been quite apparent that the SVR4
implementation has little in common with BSD, other than a common 7th
Edition UNIX heritage.  Its memory management, like SunOS's, is entirely
different.  Its character I/O system is entirely different.  Its general
filesystem support is entirely different (although one module does support
BSD filesystems as a special case).  Its network base is entirely
different, although some of the "r-commands" may have been adapted from
BSD versions.  And in general it makes the current BSD release look sick.