DEC is dishonest - ULTRIX is not UNIX

[Matthew J. Thurmaier]

In article <661 at scc.UUCP>, steiny at scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) writes:
> **
> 	They claim that ULTRIX is 4.2BSD, or at least 4.2BSD
> compatible.   
> 
> 	In sys/acct.h the ac_etime field is float on ULTRIX and
> and time_t on UNIX (including 4.1bsd, 4.2bsd, version 7, system III,
> system V).  In sys/acct.h the ac_utime and ac_stime fields are 
> float on ULTRIX and comp_t on UNIX.    
> 
	What version of ULTRIX are you running?  At the University of Wisconsin,
we are running 1.3 on MicroVaxII's and it is VERY compativle with our 4.3Betta
and 4.2 releases.  I did a "grep ac_utime /usr/include/sys/acct.h" and it 
showed "comp_t ac_utime; /*...*/".  Of course the comment was there.

	Perhaps you got a bad or out-of-date version of ULTRIX?  Don't get me
wrong, I don't normally defend corporate giants, but I think you are to
quick to judge in this case.  At U of W, we keep ALL of our source on 1
750 and compile and distribute it to our (~100+) vaxen with NO problems.

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Matthew J. Thurmaier
U of Wisc - Madison, Computer Systems Lab

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