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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