[net.unix] What UNIX does UTS look like?

m15434@mitre.ARPA (Charles Howell) (03/12/85)

Is UTS a "look-alike" for one specific incarnation of UNIX  (e.g.
System  V,  BSD  4.2,  etc.)  or  is it a "blend" of various UNIX
systems?  I'm not so much interested in  the  "Chapter  1"  stuff
(tools)  as  I  am  in  chapters  2 and 3; how much work would be
required to port a tool written for BSD 4.2 ?  Does  UTS  run  on
top of VM?

Thanks,
    Chuck Howell

gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) (03/16/85)

> Is UTS a "look-alike" for one specific incarnation of UNIX  (e.g.
> System  V,  BSD  4.2,  etc.)  or  is it a "blend" of various UNIX
> systems?  I'm not so much interested in  the  "Chapter  1"  stuff
> (tools)  as  I  am  in  chapters  2 and 3; how much work would be
> required to port a tool written for BSD 4.2 ?  Does  UTS  run  on
> top of VM?
> 
> Thanks,
>     Chuck Howell

UTS/V, the new product, is System V Release 2 compatable.  Everything
in sections 2 and 3 is implimented (including curses and the other
external libraries).

We have added some of the features of 4.1 BSD:  vfork, ftime, dup2,
the dbm(3X) library, among them.  The 4.2 BSD directory compatibility
routines are included as part of the sendmail code.  (Yes, we have
sendmail, too, as well as the C shell).

Yes, it runs on top of (or "under") VM, and has facilities for
interacting with other virtual machines, particularly other
UTS's.

I will be sending the official product announcment for posting
in mod.unix soon; stay tuned!
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam