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Yes, ?more correctly?, Solaris 2.x is System V. Then after about 2.6, they threw away the 2. Part. Then once the evil Oracle grabbed on, it all went into the dumpster. Aug AG5AT Sent from my iPad > On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:56 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> 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 >>> > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA