How can I find out cc or cpp symbols?
Sean Fagan
seanf at sco.COM
Tue May 9 04:53:31 AEST 1989
In article <7130 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>In article <675 at dtscp1.UUCP> scott at dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
>> Isn't System V Unix?
>The term Unix has two different meanings.
>One, the generic meaning, derives from common usage. Unix here is a
>noun that stands for a family of operating systems. Both Version 7 and
>BSD are Unix. This meaning of Unix was established long before System
>V existed.
>While System V is sold under the UNIX label, System V
>itself (a noun) is not UNIX (an adjective as used here).
Gee, that's funny. I learned Unix on an AT&T machine (a 3b5), pure vanilla
AT&T System V Release 2.1.0 UNIX(tm). A year or so later, I got an account
on this wierd system, called (I think) BSD, or some such.
SysV is as much unix (or more so) as bsd. Actually, since SysV is larger, I
guess you could say it's *more* unix than bsd.
Oh, and btw: unix is not a common noun. Although I miscapitalize it, unix
is, has been, and, probably, always will be, associated with the AT&T
operating system, trademarked under the name UNIX.
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