[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?
John Dallman
jgd at cix.co.uk
Mon Sep 4 09:04:00 EDT 2023
In article <ud4i5t$fo4$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:
> Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> >In that case, what is a "real" Unix ?
>
> Strictly speaking, it's anything licensed under the AT&T Unix
> source code license.
OK, let's call that a Unix(tm).
Linux, and BSD OSes that are not a Unix(tm), can fairly be described as
Unix-like operating systems, IMHO, because they have pretty good
source-level portability to and from Unix(tm) operating systems,
John
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