[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Brian Hechinger]

Common, accepted and STILL WRONG.

-brian

On 18/11/21 17:56, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>   Not quite.  Solaris 1.1.2 is SunOS 4.1.4.  That was an 
> after-the-fact rebranding, but still.  What you state below is the 
> common and accepted usage.
>
>             -Dave
>
> On 11/18/21 12:53 PM, August Treubig wrote:
>> SunOS is BSD,
>> Solaris is System V.
>>
>>
>> Aug Treubig
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 18/11/21 17:20, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>>> On 11/18/21 12:12 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
>>>>> They do it _today_.
>>>>
>>>>    Well, since the last release of SunOS (not Solaris) was in 1994, 
>>>> and the last release of Ultrix was in 1995..
>>>
>>>
>>> It's still SunOS. Solaris is a different thing. Thanks marketing twats!
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I think you can get burnt whether it's a bunch of academics 
>>>>> eternally discussing purity in committees or a couple of kids just 
>>>>> picking something.
>>>>
>>>>    Very true.  The only way to truly protect yourself is to have 
>>>> the source code and revert any poor decisions that they make.  Oh, 
>>>> wait, we can do that!
>>>
>>>
>>> So I've fallen into watching old Bryan Cantrill interviews. His 
>>> rants on this are FANTASTIC.
>>>
>>>
>>> -brian
>>>
>>
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