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To: RTev who wrote (17039)	2/27/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Sure, it resulted in variations in both Unix and C, but was the result so bad? Both run on just about any powerful processor available and both managed to become significant standards. And even the variations aren't so severe. I'm not a Unixoid, but on the surface Linux looks exactly like the Ultrix or Digital Unix that I use when I telnet into my ISP. The utilities are the same. Many programs (including X-servers) are recompiled to work on both Unix variants. At work we have tools we wrote in ANSI C that work fine on SunOS, won't run reliably in the previous version of Solaris, and won't even link in the current version of Solaris. And all of these Unix OSes were written by the same company: Sun! (I'm not directly involved with those tools so I can't tell you what the issues are.)

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