ahogan@DDN1.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/16/84)
From: "Andrew L. Hogan" <ahogan@DDN1.ARPA> UniSoft, Inc. of Berkeley, CA makes a business of porting Berkeley Unix to MC68000-based systems. They refer to this product as UniPlus. I think this product is actually some combination of System V and Berk 4.2 (I seem to recall "System V with Berkeley enhancements"). Anyway, it includes TCP/IP, Telnet, etc. UniSoft's sales package includes a (long) list of systems that they have provided this package for. You might want to obtain this. LAN's: Look into Excelan Inc., Pronet, 3COM, and Fusion. Best, Pat Sullivan DDN/PMO
stevel@haddock.UUCP (07/20/84)
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haddock!stevel Jul 19 15:33:00 1984
UNiPLUS is not Berkley UNIX!!!!!!!!
It is Systen III with berkley user programs ported over.
No Job control
No networking.
No sockets.
No vitual memory.
No RCS
No ranlib
Yes vi
Yes more
Not a whole lot better that SYSTEM V. Unless you can't live without csh.
Only wimp programmers NEED csh :-)
Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevelian@utcsstat.UUCP (Ian F. Darwin) (07/24/84)
Steve Ludlum on `UniPlus+':
UNiPLUS is not Berkley UNIX!!!!!!!!
It is Systen III with berkley user programs ported over.
What Steve does not know is that there are `n' versions of UniPlus+
(note spelling; it's a trademark, apparently including the funny `+').
What UniSoft calls `v7' is derived from Bell v7 and Berkeley (2.8, 4.1?).
UniSoft also puts out System III and System V (`Consider it Standard').
No Job control
No networking.
Networking is available (extra cost) - full TCP/IP.
Uucp is included (it qualifies as a network, methinks).
No sockets.
No vitual memory.
No RCS
No ranlib
Ranlib is in `UniPlus+ v7', but not the System III/V.
Also missing is dbm, grep -y, and most of the things that
USG maintained militant ignorance of in going from pre-v7 to System III.
Hardly UniSoft's fault if they're a faithful port of UGLIX III/V.
Yes vi
Yes more
Not a whole lot better that SYSTEM V. Unless you can't live without csh.
I don't understand this comment. It *is* System V if you get the latest
version from UniSoft. It includes both sh and csh, both ed and vi, etc.
Only wimp programmers NEED csh :-)
True enough.
Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {amd70|ihnp4!cbosgd}!ima!stevel
Ian Darwin, Toronto
{ihnp4|decvax}!utcsstat!ian
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Ian Darwin, Toronto
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