From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 16:14:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170504231436.GC2932@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93E87A49-523F-4BCE-9D89-E62351410A8C@tfeb.org>
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 3 May 2017, at 14:41, Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Along these lines, who said "Cat went to Berkely, came back waving flags."
>
> And anyone who lived through the SunOS 4 -- SunOS 5 transition will know that some of those Berkeley flags (not specifically for cat, but almost certainly including those for cat) were really quite useful. I remember spending really a long time finding and building BSD/GNU versions of utilities which actually had the options you needed on early SunOS 5 machines: later on Sun themselves put some of them back.
As someone who was at Sun, loved SunOS 4 and hated Solaris, yup. Even the
diehard Solaris people like Bryan Cantrill say that they stick /opt/gnu/bin
in their path first.
It boggles my mind that Sun was so strict on being compat with SVR4 and
they knew that everyone hated that.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-03 13:41 Nemo
2017-05-03 22:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-04 14:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-05-04 23:14 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-05-05 14:01 ` Random832
2017-05-05 18:56 ` A. P. Garcia
2017-05-05 17:33 ` Tim Bradshaw
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2017-05-03 0:52 Doug McIlroy
2017-05-03 0:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-05-03 12:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-05-03 13:09 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-05-03 13:46 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-05-03 14:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-03 15:34 ` arnold
2017-05-03 15:44 ` Clem Cole
2017-05-01 17:25 ron minnich
2017-05-01 18:09 ` Toby Thain
2017-05-02 16:11 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-02 16:39 ` Erik E. Fair
2017-05-02 16:43 ` ron minnich
2017-05-02 20:28 ` Diomidis Spinellis
[not found] ` <CAM4FNStH7KH6+ab0o_fYKfzutvPQ__0w0Zq5_6hk4AFP=+aSAw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-02 20:34 ` Daniel Camolês
2017-05-02 20:34 ` Steve Johnson
2017-05-02 21:22 ` Andy Kosela
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