[H-GEN] What is Unix?

[Robert Brockway]

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).
 
> The commands? Adherence to various little philosophies like "a
> hierarchial filesystem starting a / and descending", or "a single tool
> that does a single job well"? A kernel based on ken's original?

The Unix philosophy is important too
 
> Is an Amiga with Fred Fish's GeekGadgets installed a Unix?

Not in my definition
 
> Is a Win95 box with the GNU utilities installed a Unix?

Not in my definition (aka ditto)
 
> In short, is my BeBox (effectively) a Unix?

Is it posix compliant? :)
Now, posix is relatively new so my definition isn't perfect, but it is a
pretty good working definition.

> (What's happening, if anything, with the network accounting at
> meetings, btw?)

We can implement it at will, but have so far chosen not to do so.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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