OT: Unix or UNIX or unix

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 15:24 -0600, CJ Kelley wrote:
>> <snip>
>>         
>>                The 386 was a great CPU from Intel and the Linux kernel
>>         allows us to
>>         make a great Unix computer. The Unix design makes it safer and
>>         more
>>         capable than a current Windows. I have always been amazed that
>>         Windows
>>         didn't take Unix and run.
>> </snip>
>>
>> my instructor told us one day when he was giving a lecture about the
>> history of linux and unix that windows's network layer was taken from
>> linux. This was back in the windows 9x days..so windows current
>> network layer is no longer unixes. 
> 
> The Windows TCP/IP implementation was taken from BSD Unix which had a
> much more permissive license which allowed Microsoft to use the codebase
> with attribution.
> 
> Linux is a Unix work-alike and presents a POSIX compliant system
> services API with extensions.  It is not Unix in the sense that the
> Linux kernel codebase is not derived from any previous Unix variant as
> originally licensed from AT&T all those many years ago.
> 
	You got it right! Follow the money and you see where names come from
and who wins. I think Ubuntu is a lot closer to Unix than the Unix
people will admit. But Ubuntu is free and that doesn't count.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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