What is UNIX? Re: wanted: UNIX or clone

[Alan Barclay]

In article <QWGALK at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>In fact, UNIX is:
>
>	access alarm brk chdir chmod chown close creat dup exec
>	exit fork getpid getuid getgid ioctl kill link lseek mknod
>	mount open pause pipe read setuid setgid signal stat sync
>	time umask umount unlink wait write
>
>Any operating system that provides these 35 system calls with the semantics
>described in Section 2 of the PRM is UNIX.

This is possibly the worst definition of UNIX I've every seen, hang on
a minute though, VMS with the right lib supports these calls, does this
mean we can stop all the UNIX/VMS wars by saying they're both the same?
If so then I do like this.