System V Release 4.0 versus BSD
Adam Costello
llxxkk at mixcom.UUCP
Fri Jul 20 08:58:55 AEST 1990
I recently told a friend that the Amiga 3000 would soon be running AT&T UNIX
System V Release 4.0, and he said that I would be much better off with a BSD
release. I asked why, and he gave me the following summary:
quote
What is wrong with Sys V:
No finger
No who
No what
ps works funny (and not nearly as well)
echo is hacked
the csh is not supported worth dog dooky
stty has not half the options
shell scripts execute with the Bourne Shell no matter what
the #!<interpreter> line for scripts is not supported
the csh is crippled (very poor job control)
the only alternative to the csh is ksh, a worthless hack on sh
BSD network niceties are not supported (like telnet)
In a nut shell, it sucks. (Why else does Sun ship BSD?)
end of quote
My question is, is he accurate, and if so, do his criticisms apply to Release
4.0?
Please send replies via email to llxxkk at mixcom.UUCP, or post to comp.sys.amiga,
since I don't normally subscribe to this newsgroup.
Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
AMC
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