oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit) (08/22/88)
In article <282@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> jherr@umbio.MIAMI.EDU (Jack Herrington) writes: > >So how many re-writes of UNIX do we have running right now, let me >see how many I know of. > >- Berkeley is developing BSD 4.4 >- AT&T is developing SVr4. >- GNU is making GNU. >- Sun and AT&T are "merging" UNIX for AT&T SVr5? >- Plan 9. >- Xenix. >- Posix. >- Mach (not UNIX, but damn close). > >There have to be others, maybe I can keep sort of a running list and >post it to both here and 'rec.humor'!. Heheeee.. You make an interesting point. [You forgot to include minix] Did I hear someone mention "standards" ?? Or does history repeat itself ?? Yep, It does. rec.humor should get lotsa postings within the year 2000, about portability, standards, the "ultimate" Un*x, and other trivia about "my nix is better then your nix" while someone at Bell labs is running plan-9 warp 8, ["release" would be a misnomer] and the neighborhood cabbie is re-writing cat -v ... FSF folks will be puzzling over "GNU: not enough core" messages on a 1024 meg sun5/3000. Doug Gwyn's rack will contain a 35-volume SXID (system-10 Interface Definition) that will be the latest AT&T-SUN sub-standard. [Sources will require a security clearence]. oz -- Crud that is not paged | Usenet: ...!utzoo!yunexus!oz is still crud. | ...uunet!mnetor!yunexus!oz andrew@alice | Bitnet: oz@[yulibra|yuyetti] | Phonet: +1 416 736-5257x3976