[H-GEN] What is Unix?

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jason Parker wrote:

> [Line eater, eat this!  :)  What is going on?]
> On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > So what, exactly, makes a Unix?
> 
> > I generally consider POSIX compliance or aiming at posix compliance
> > (NT is excepted). 
> 
> Oh cool---QNX makes it in.  :)

Delayed response :)  Yep, I think so.  It is very Unix like under the hood
from what I have been able to gather.
 
> On a tangentially related thread:  I was looking for any free
> (in the sense that one can obtain source code) unices the other day
> (Linux was not installing, and I wanted to see if I could find
> something new...  As it turns out, I managed to get RedHat 4.2
> installed[1].)
> 
> It would seem that there's Mach, *BSD, Linux, Minix and that's it.  :(
> All the experimental OS's are either not free (eg:  QNX, which looks
> *really cool* but no-one will sell it to me) or some sort of
> experimental thing, available only if you want to do kernel hacking... 

There is a page that mentions many free OSes (and non-free ones).  VSTa
has already been mentioned, but there are others.  Many are more or less
unix like.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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