Hi Solaris at least has "seen the light" and is becoming a lot more open than it once was.
Bob On Apr 25, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > On 04/25/2010 10:55 AM, Steve Rooke wrote: >> On 25 April 2010 02:39, Magnus Danielson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 04/24/2010 03:57 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> Hmmm, good point. >>>> >>>> The port must have been to something other than Linux. >>> >>> One of the many flavours of BSD I guess, or one of the many other flavours >>> of UNIX. >>> >>> I have become old enough that most of the UNIX flavours I have worked on is >>> now deceased or about to. This is mainly the history of commercial UNIXes. >> >> Unix will never die! They said it was going to die in the 80's but >> it's still going strong in some form or another, or imitated, >> embedded, pervasive, a survivor. What's more the ones you think are >> deceased are still being used out there by small and large groups of >> people who just won't let it die, they'll have to prise it out of >> their cold dead hands. Why, well people swear by it, all the other OS' >> people just swear at them (well at least one OS I can think of :) > > You didn't get me right... UNIX (and offspring Linux) is not dying, but > Xenix, SunOS, Ultrix, OSF/1, HP-UX, IRIX etc. is dying or dead. Wonder what > is happening to AIX (which I haven't used) and Solaris. These are all various > vendors proprietary variants of UNIX. The field have shifted in that sense. A > greater part of the OS is now being brought in from the open and only > necessary stuff is added for the task at hand. > > Proprietary OSes in the old sense is less and less meaningful. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
