[H-GEN] What is Unix?

[Jason Parker]

[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.  :)

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... 

*sigh*

Jason
ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au

[1] : Just *one word*.  The only Debian CD-ROM I have is over a year
      old now...  And the redhat one was left at my place by
      mistake...[2]
[2] : If only that ATAPI 24x CD-ROM *drive* had been left with it!
      *sigh*

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