🚀 go-pugleaf

Carl Edman writes
> In article <Q3CVBV64@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu  
(Erik Oliver) writes:
>    And, I still stand by my claim that the NeXT is a Mach machine, but I
>    can see how my statement was misinterptreted.  I agree that the NeXT,
>    has BSD interfaces and BSD programs, not SysV programs and SysV
>    interfaces.  But, at the core it is a Mach Kernel which is very
>    different in its features and design than just saying BSD.
> 
> Even if technically NeXT is not running "real" BSD, for all practical
> purposes the NeXT OS is as compatible with machines running "pure" BSD
> as those machines are among themselves. This includes most areas of
> the kernel which a kernel driver would be interested in.

Didn't I read that NS 3.0 is completely BSD4.3 compatible?
Also, Suns are BSD machines but run SunOS.
So, BSD must be a standard that can be layered on top of different  
operating systems (e.g. NT, SunOS, and Mach).

--Glenn