24 Jun
2003
24 Jun
'03
10:28 p.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Go ahead and laugh, but your server could be having a bad day today.
That being said, I am curious myself, as to the differences. Can
someone come up with the definite explanation regarding which is
which?
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon(a)worldnet.att.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: tuhs-bounces(a)minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On
Behalf Of Warren Toomey
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:22 PM
To: The Unix Heritage Society
Subject: [TUHS] Unix Derivatives and Variants
I'm not sure why mailman rejected this e-mail. Anyway, here it is.
Warren
Subject: RE: [TUHS] Getting UNIXs for 16-bit 8086
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:39:11 -0700
Thread-Topic: [TUHS] Getting UNIXs for 16-bit 8086
From: "Ian King" <iking(a)windows.microsoft.com>
To: "Natalia Portillo" <iosglpgc(a)teleline.es>es>,
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
I'm trying to discern the difference between a variant and a
derivative.
:-) Yes, we can trace back to the One True UNIX, but
after things
started branching it gets pretty confusing. It's possibly an
indefensible taxonomy to distinguish a 'variant' (Coherent? XINU?)
from
a derivative (which would encompass any BSD forms, I
guess).
FWIW, a while back someone was selling XINU ported to 8086 (I recall
buying a set of 5-1/4" source disks a thousand or so years ago). Is
that more the sort of thing you're looking for? The current
version(s)
of XINU are available at
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/xsoft.html,
according to Google. -- Ian
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