18 Nov
2021
18 Nov
'21
11:39 p.m.
Common, accepted and STILL WRONG.
-brian
On 18/11/21 17:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
? Not quite.? Solaris 1.1.2 is SunOS 4.1.4.? That was an
after-the-fact rebranding, but still.? What you state below is the
common and accepted usage.
??????????? -Dave
On 11/18/21 12:53 PM, August Treubig wrote:
SunOS is BSD,
Solaris is System V.
Aug Treubig
Sent from my iPad
On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Brian Hechinger
<wonko at 4amlunch.net>
wrote:
?On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
> They do it _today_.
?? Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994,
and the last release of Ultrix was in 1995..
It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!
> I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of academics
> eternally discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just
> picking something.
?? Very true.? The only way to truly protect yourself is to have
the source code and revert any poor decisions that they make.? Oh,
wait, we can do that!
So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His
rants on this are FANTASTIC.
-brian