> "Clearly"?  If you discount the inventions done for
> SunOS at Sun, I don't
> think there's that much to show: sockets, reliable
> signal handling,
> r* commands.

I thought sockets and reliable signals were originated from Berkley. Sun 
invented NFS, and the biggest take from SunOS were the virtual memory, virtual 
file system stuff (VOP_* stuff), and NFS. AT&T (USL) were pushing their own 
streams interface instead of the BSD socket API.

> 
> I think it's safer to say that there's common
> ancestry and that the
> torch of development passed from AT&T to BSD to Sun
> (and that's where
> it still is, if you ask me :-)

What about SCO?  They invented Unix.  Opsss....
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