Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ulysses!hector!ekrell From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)? Message-ID: <12209@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 24 Sep 89 14:29:22 GMT References: <1702@naucse.UUCP><978@mtxinu.UUCP> <868@cirrusl.UUCP> <2486@auspex.auspex.com> <890@cirrusl.UUCP> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 14 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 UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.com