[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

[Dave McGuire]

  Yup. :) And since when are you a pedant?? I've always been pedantic enough for both of us. Perhaps I just know in my heart that Sun made a mistake with the naming. ;)

On November 18, 2021 7:00:22 PM Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
> Nope!
> On Nov 18, 2021, 23:58 +0000, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>, wrote:
>>
>> Eventually it does. :)
>>
>> On November 18, 2021 6:57:34 PM Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
>>> Still doesn't make it right. 😜
>>>
>>> -brian
>>> On Nov 18, 2021, 23:44 +0000, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>, wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>>>> New Kensington, PA
>>
>>
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>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA


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