[Info-vax] What is a "real" Unix ?

Bob Eager news0009 at eager.cx
Mon Sep 4 17:00:17 EDT 2023


On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:00 +0100, John Dallman wrote:

> 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,

That is pretty well my view.



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