mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amiga have keyboard garages) Meyer) (03/16/90)
In article <14009@snow-white.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
On the subject of Commodore Amix, I think that they are going to drop the name
'Amix' and just call it Unix. Apparently, since it is a full implementation
of Unix System Vr4 they can do this. Other PC Unix implementations are not
full implementations
I think more likely AT&T has loosened their binary resale licensing.
AT&T used to forbid such licensess from calling their product "Unix",
under any conditions. I've heard this has changed.
...for example AUX (Apple Unix) for the Mac and AIX (IBM's
Unix).
Other implementations are pretty complete; at least as far as what was
being sold when they started. AIX, for example, has X, Andrew hooks,
NFS, and pretty much everything else you'd want. Ultrix is similarly
complete. SunOS ditto, and indeed SysVr4 added code from SunOS in the
"AT&T/SunOS merge".
I don't know what these Unix implementations lack, but apparently they
aren't totally Unix; forgive me, I do not use Unix and have had no exposure to
it.
You're forgiven. What they probably lack is a modern license when they
started, coupled with unwillingness to change names in midstream for
marketing reasons.
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