5 Jun
2024
5 Jun
'24
11:51 p.m.
On 6/5/24 12:34 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
On Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 at 3:17 AM, Andrew Lynch
via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
When I saw this thread appear, I was of two minds about it, but this
lines up with where my thoughts were headed. I've done a lot of delving
into the v6/v7 environments over the last 10 years or so and it feels
much closer in kinship to BSD derivatives than to SysV... source code
lineages aside. Also, I get more mileage out of my BSD books and docs
than those treating SysV. I'd vote for *BSD as sticking closest to the
unix way, if there is still such a thing... I say this as I just typed
'kldload linux64' into freebsd's terminal so I could run sublime
alongside nvi... sometimes I wish I was a purist, but I'm way too fond
of experimentation :).
Will
Hi
Out of curiosity, what would be considered the most direct descendent of Unix available
today?
...
Thanks, Andrew Lynch
snip
Given this, my humble opinion (which again this sort of thing I believe is largely a
philosophical matter of opinion...) is that the BSD line captures the spirit of Research
UNIX much more than System V does, while System V retains much more of the source code
lineage of what most folks would consider a "pure" UNIX. Of course all of this
too is predicated on treating V7 (really 32V...) as that central point of divergence.