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What is UNIX, Anyway?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-sure-tastes-unixy dept.

Lieutenant writes "Technology professionals have loosely used the term "UNIX" since the first person had to explain the difference between the Berkeley and AT&T flavors, so it's not surprising to find as many UNIX standards as there are versions of the operating system. Peter Seebach wades through the wellspring of UNIX standards and sorts them out for you, concluding that the rumors of the death of UNIX are (as usual) greatly exaggerated."

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  1. Re:Not a bad article. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ah, no, faggot. I can install a.out compatibility libraries here and run an ~8 year old binary
    just fine. I won't say 20 years because Linux hasn't been around that long.

    And actually, while you're being overly technical, 20 years ago was before windows 2.0 was
    released, and I'm very sure that XP has a lot of problems running old dos (and that era of
    windows) programs.