[PLUG] Linux = Unix?

[Geoff Burling]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Mark wrote:

> Wil Cooley wrote:
> > Brian Beattie wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Unix systems I have worked on.
> >>
> >> UNIX Edition 6
> >> UNIX Edition 7
> >> BSD 2.9, 2.10
> >> BSD 4.1c
> >> PWB
> >> System III
> >> System V rel 2
> >> System V rel 2.2
> >> System V rel 4
> >> SUN OS
> >> Solaris
> >> HP/UX
> >> BSD/OS
> >> FreeBSD
> >> OpenBSD
> >> Linux
> >
> >
> > What, no NeXTSTEP, OSF/1/Digital UNIX/Tru64, SCO OpenServer, Novell/SCO
> > UnixWare, Microsoft/SCO Xenix, IRIX, DG-UX, AIX, A-UX, Dynix or NetBSD?
> >  And you call yourself a man!
>
> You forgot Coherent and Interactive as well. I think Coherent just
> disolved at one point and Interactive was sold to Kodak and then to Sun
> to become Sun OS or Solaris. (I don't remember now.)
>
Coherent went bankrupt around 1997, IIRC. According to the guy who told me
about this, they just couldn't compete against Linux. (And had Linux
never been created, I'd bet that it would have been one of the *BSD that
would have killed Coherent.)

Then again, a few years ago my source started claiming that Windows would
replace Linux, so take that bit of 2nd-hand information with a grain of
salt. (He said some stuff after that, but I stopped listening to him;
every time he claimed to have the scoop about What's New in computers,
I would end up getting into a flamewar with him because his view of
reality was perpendicular to mine. I didn't need one more excuse to get
mad about stuff.) Lots of potentially useful developments in computing
have shrivelled up & died entirely because of a few bad business decisions.
Not that any of us could think of an example or two we have witnessed in
the last few years.

Geoff