AIX compliance?
Mark Allender
allender at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Sat Apr 13 00:15:03 AEST 1991
In article <977 at vax.cs.athabascau.ca>, willis at cs.athabascau.ca (Tony
Willis) writes:
|> Can AIX be considered either Sys V or BSD Unix compliant? I gather
|> that its really neither, and that IBM has decided to essentially
|> develop its own independent version of Unix, but I'd appreciate
|> comments from those who are more in the know than I am.
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Tony Willis
|> twillis at drao.nrc.ca
As far as I know, AIX is neither BSD or SYSV, and is both BSD and SYSV. I have
installed applications where I have had to define BSD, and others where I have
had to define SYSV, and still others where there was a #define RS6000.
Go figure....this kind of thing is really annoying....
-Mark Allender
-University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
-Conversation Builder Project
-allender at cs.uiuc.edu
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