[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Dave McGuire]

  It's the standard. =)

            -Dave

On November 18, 2021 5:39:55 PM Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
> 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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