[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Brian Hechinger]

Most correctly only your last sentence is right. :-P

-brian

On 18/11/21 18:05, August Treubig wrote:
> Yes,  “more correctly”, Solaris 2.x is System V.  Then after about 2.6, they threw away the 2. Part.   Then once the evil Oracle grabbed on, it all went into the dumpster.
>
> Aug
> AG5AT
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Nov 18, 2021, at 11:56 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> 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
>>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA