Re: Is your NeXT secretly running BSD ? (was: PGP v2.1 and NeXT)

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From: Andy Newman
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:30

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gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
>Didn't I read that NS 3.0 is completely BSD4.3 compatible?

Don't believe everything you read. The kernel i/f is close but not
identical. At the user level there are things missing and a lot of
additions (fine by me :-) The admin level has NetInfo which makes life
very interesting.

>Also, Suns are BSD machines but run SunOS.
SunOS is a heavily modified version of BSD. There are many 

>So, BSD must be a standard that can be layered on top of different  
>operating systems (e.g. NT, SunOS, and Mach).

You could say that. It is theoretically possible to implement one
system over another OS but is often impossible or just not worth the
effort (i.e. too hard to make it efficient.)

-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au)

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