From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: neozeed@gmail.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:35:22 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] SYSV & TCP/IP on the VAX... In-Reply-To: <20090527030652.GA29941@mercury.ccil.org> References: <46b366130905261645u62d5fbc3qb75df6bcb20a2791@mail.gmail.com> <20090526234802.GD3873@bitmover.com> <46b366130905261657g4a82caf3s41cc5be2c8253d4c@mail.gmail.com> <20090526235905.GE3873@bitmover.com> <46b366130905261710v65dda4cbr9a971b404716ecda@mail.gmail.com> <20090527030652.GA29941@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: <46b366130905262035i18855ba6pc22447fc1e4f4e42@mail.gmail.com> When did it go from UNIX to Unix? Then again the whole "The Open Group" makes less then no sense to me... I have to laugh when something that is clearly a UNIX (say 32v) can't be called UNIX because the rights were sold out from underneath it... But then I'm not a lawyer so the law makes little or no sense to me. Then again the whole 'standards' thing reminds me of iBCS2... nice idea, but too bad GNU didn't supported it worth a damn, besides Microsoft of all people.... Or maybe that's precisely why it died. Or if anyone can point me in a direction to build iBCS2 stuff with binutils/gcc I'm all ears. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:06 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Jason Stevens scripsit: > >> I guess so... then I was just looking on google, SYSVR4 was released >> in 1988.  It's kind of sad to think NOTHING signifigant happened in >> the last 20 1/2 years, and that 1988 was the pinical of UNIX... > > "UNIX" is no longer the name of a codebase.  Technically, it is the name > of a set of standards; in practice, it (usually written "Unix") is the > name of an evolving design tradition. > > -- > John Cowan     http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > One time I called in to the central system and started working on a big > thick 'sed' and 'awk' heavy duty data bashing script.  One of the geologists > came by, looked over my shoulder and said 'Oh, that happens to me too. > Try hanging up and phoning in again.'  --Beverly Erlebacher >