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Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

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From: Jon Masters <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:47:28 +0100 (BST)
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On 15 Sep 2003, Alex Hudson wrote:

> Sun has continually paid out money for Unix licences for years and
> years; they probably have enough licences to cover themselves. I'm not
> sure what you mean about Solaris; Solaris is the SysV OS - SunOS was
> BSD-derived.

I should stop purely thinking about the kernel. You are right about the
userspace side of things - I just decided to ignore that chunk. :-).

> I thought the rename to Solaris was just a marketing thing (as well as
> the assimilation of SysV)? IIRC, Solaris 1.x didn't even exist - it was
> a retro-active rename of certain SunOS products. 

True.

Jon.

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