AT&T and SUN Unix
William E. Davidsen Jr
davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Fri Apr 15 03:51:44 AEST 1988
Let's look at where standards originate currently:
SysV AT&T
BSD Sun (sorry, they seemed to have loaned B enough
programmers to get 4.3 out the door)
Xenix Microsoft (in terms of licenses sold they are
the leader, no matter what you think of the hardware)
And who's doing the combined version? Same three. Motorola will be
doing some things, too, but I either forgot or never knew.
What would I like? Fast file system, streams, NFS and RFS, sockets,
TCP/IP, shared memory, SysV semaphores (reliable), shared memory, and
named pipes. SysV paging algorithm, HDB uucp, Xenix system
administration tools.
In a year I'll know if my wishlist is anything like the real
product, but at least we have a chance. I would be interested to hear
anyone's favorite features, and to clarify why I like what I do if
you're not familiar with it.
--
bill davidsen (wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
{uunet | philabs | seismo}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
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