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From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] *nixs
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:35:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060427003556.GA64980@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c66989$d8aa18e0$1901a8c0@myhome.westell.com>

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:33:37PM -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>     This xenix and venix OS thing. Where did these OSs come from? If minix
> and BSD are direct descendants of v4,5,6,7 where does linux fit in here?

Minix, like Linux, was written from scratch, and isn't derived from UNIX.

	Warren



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-27  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-26 23:33 Bill Cunningham
2006-04-27  0:15 ` Michael Parson
2006-04-27  0:25 ` Michael Davidson
2006-04-27  0:35 ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2006-04-27  8:26 ` M. Warner Losh

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