[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-05 19:55, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <kerjg4$u78$2 at dont-email.me>,
> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> Or for that matter, why so many different Unixes ????
>
> The differences in the various true Unix versions are trivial at best.
> The biggest differences are in the proprietary Unixes where they were
> delibrately introduced in an attempt to differentiate a product, garner
> more sales and lock customers in.  I think it is fairly safe to conclude
> at this point that the real Unixes [Free|Open|Net]BSD are similar to point
> that there is no program written for one that will not compile and run on
> another.  And that they outsnumber the proprietary Unixes in number of
> installed systems.

You'd actually loose that bet.
There are differences between [Free|Open|Net]BSD that makes some 
programs just work on one or another of them.
But most of the time, and for most code, it does work to compile on any 
of them. It's just that they aren't as homogenous as one might think.

	Johnny

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