From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 16:14:36 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] dmr note on BSD's sins In-Reply-To: <93E87A49-523F-4BCE-9D89-E62351410A8C@tfeb.org> References: <93E87A49-523F-4BCE-9D89-E62351410A8C@tfeb.org> Message-ID: <20170504231436.GC2932@mcvoy.com> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 3 May 2017, at 14:41, Nemo 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. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm