Re: [PLUG] Maybe OT - "Supported" Unix on Intel CPUs?

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 12:04  PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:48:58AM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, you are correct. No "Unix" (ie Unix
> > branded) runs on Intel. SCO might be the closest thing to "Unix" that
> > does, except that it doesn't exist anymore. (I forget who bought them,
> > Novell maybe?)
>
> It really shocks me that intelligent people have just never heard of
> BSD/OS.

BSD derivatives are NOT branded Unix. [BSD Unix was, but "BSD Unix" is 
no longer existent.]

You will notice that Wind River's BSD/OS does NOT call itself Unix.
The same is true of NetBSD and FreeBSD. And OpenBSD describes itself

	"The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based
	 UNIX-like operating system."

The reason for this is that Unix branding is a process and a licensing 
situation. It guarantees that the Operating system involved conforms to 
a large list of standards, and that it has been tested for that 
conformance by X/Open.


T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com

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