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John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Tue Oct 10 15:48:37 AEST 1989


In article <6471 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Sorry, Buster. Xenix *IS* UNIX. Xenix *IS* UNIX. So is V7 UNIX, BSD UNIX,
>System III, Version 6, PWB, Onyx, TNIX, Venix, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Beg to differ.  UNIX(tm) is a registered trademark for a product which
AT&T sells.  It is -not- any operating system which wishes to call itself
UNIX.

Xenix is -not- UNIX.  BSD 4.x is -not- UNIX.  Nor are the remainder
of the things listed above which can't legally call themselves UNIX.

There really is a good reason for this.  The entire reason the SVID
and SVVS and friends exist is to define exactly -what- UNIX really is.
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