[Info-vax] IE8 got me too :-( Sorry Jeff.

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <00cf0d85$0$1490$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> Does anyone really believe that Linux isn't a Unix ? 
>>
>> Was Digital's Ultrix considered a Unix even though it wasn't "Unix"
>> compliant ?
> 
>    According to some of my customers, ULTRIX wasn't "real" UNIX.  To
>    get "real" UNIX you had to buy Sun or HP.  In thier mind DEC couldn't
>    possibly produce a "real" UNIX.  At that time none of them were
>    compliant to any standard other than having AT&T's orginal UNIX in
>    thier heritage.
> 
>> Sorry folks, But Linux is just another Unix to me.  It has a Unix user
>> interface, unix commands etc.
> 
>    So if I load up my VMS 6.x system with the POSIX toolkit, and set
>    your CLI to the POSIX shell, is VMS a UNIX to you?
> 
No!  The last time I tried, years ago, VMS+Posix could not correctly 
execute a "configure" script.  Solaris had no problem executing the same 
script.  IIRC it was the configure script for NTPD V3.x.  Someone, I 
have forgotten his name (Wolfgang Muller????) had an NTP distribution 
that would build on VMS.  VMS Engineering subsequently issued a 
supported version of NTPD.