If I can take a stab at this . . . :-)
BSD 4.3 was and is one of the most neatest versions of UNIX ever
developed. In fact, the current MacOS 10.x and greater is based on BSD
UNIX. The only reason System V took dominance in the market place was:
0) Ma Bell
1) Xenix for 8086 Architectures
2) Sun Microsystems was originally BSD Unix (4.3 being their
greatest release). This went to AT&T System V, due to the fact that
they needed at that time the already developed System V kernel,
supporting multiple SPARC CPUs (BSD development of a kernel that could
do this was about a year or two out at that time). It was a marketing
decision that would allow them to immediately sell machines with
multiple CPUs (CPUs > 1 were just for show on early releases). Solaris
was painful to migrate to . . .
3) SCO (a Microsoft Company) tried to corner the at-home UNIX
market with a stolen version of AT&T System III . . .
With respect to chip architecture, the Intel 8085 and above were
obviously engineered "on-the-cheep" (trust me, I had to get these chips
to do reliable calculations in college), and Motorola had the superior
CPU design, with their 6809, 68020, 68030, and 68040 architectures.
Beer-budget Bill Gates lifted (did not create) the first Microsoft OS (a
derivative of CP/M) running on a beer-budget chip (Intel 8085) in his
garage. Bill's big claim to fortune was being able to "sell broken
electrical iceboxes to Eskimos." He marketed crap and became rich off
of promises of upgrades and improved features.
Michael is a modern-day purist. From what I see, I believe that his
projects have merit, and span beyond the "all-mighty dollar", focusing
on the research and development of soundly-based technologies.
Steve
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger E. Rustad,
Jr
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:46 AM
To: SoCal LUG Users List
Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] Harhan DNS and VAXen
Ok, I'll bite a second time.
I still don't understand the compelling reason to use an old version of
BSD on non x86 hardware. What specific benefit are you getting from
your non-standard / non-traditional hardware setup? Is it...
(a) the cool factor?
(b) doing it "just because"?
(c) mental masturbation / learning how to do something new?
(d) more suited to a particular task?
(e) because it's categorically "better"?
(f) because it gives you the fuzzy wuzzies?
(g) other
Personally, I played with Slackware for a combination of (b) and (c), as
well as the help I got from the community at the time. For me now,
Debian/CentOS-based distros work "better" for what I do on laptops and
enterprise servers. Some of the Slax builds I've seen might be
classified as (d) (e.g. Backtrax, Ophcrack, etc). Personally, Ubuntu
gives me (f) because I like it's overall build philosophy and the
attitude of the community.
Is it possibly (d) or (e) that you're essentially saying? I can't tell.
If so, please explain, as we all would love to know more. So BSD 4.3
fits like "hand in glove" to your soi-disant "HAXen" hardware
because....? BSD 4.3 is the "true and pure" version of nix because....?
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