[TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Jul 20 14:04:20 AEST 2011


On Jul 19, 2011, at 9:16 PM, John Cowan wrote:

> Doug McIntyre scripsit:
> 
>> Prior to SVR4, there were the two camps, with SVR3 being "business"
>> and BSD mostly being University/Research. With SVR4, things became
>> alot less distinct, and it was really only the linux camp that really
>> kept beating the drum that they were still so different. 
> 
> Eh?  SVR4 was released in 1988.  Linux didn't even exist until three
> years later, and there wasn't much of a Linux community for at least
> two years after that.

And once the Linux community developed, they tended to view BSD vs SYS V as being more different than they actually were...

Warner




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