On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Now's probably not the time for wise-cracks about the fact that none of
> the operating systems you're comparing are Unix. ;-)
I'm comparing Solaris and FreeBSD. Which one isn't Unix?
I'm not serious.
I know that despite attempts to regularize things, the name "Unix", in
popular parlance, covers a family of similar, but annoyingly different,
operating systems. Sometimes I just wish for an easier life. :-)
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