moving from SCO to Linux

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 06:13:07PM -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
> >> UNIX System Release 4.0, UNIX System Version 3.0 On another screen, I
> >
> > *laugh* THAT is outright wrong.  Not that you related it, but that it
> > says that anywhere.  SCO made a conscious decision NOT to go SVR4, and
> > everything they have is SVR3 and then custom modified by them.  They
> > decided to carve their own path, and at some point said as much when
> > they came under critiism for being late to adopt R4 standards.
> 
> He probably just munged it a little from memory and transposed words &
> numbers. Anyone familiar with sco would not have a problem mentally
> correcting. I extremely doubt that anything anywhere in the entire system
> claims to be greater than SVR3, but in some places they use the words
> "release" and "version" a little inconsistently.
> 
> He has some version of SCO Unix 4.x
> Whos full name is Unix System V Release 3.something Version 4.something

Version 3.2 Release 4.[012]

OpenServer 5 is 

Version 3.2 Release 5.0.x

> I dont know if it was called "Open Server" at that point but just "SCO
> Unix", or possibly "Open Desktop" But since I know there was and Open
> Desktop 3.0, I guess since they were using the word "Open" at all they'd
> probably have been naming the server release "Open Server" by then too. I
> just don't recall ever hearing or seeing "Open Server 4" or "OSR4" before.

Open Desktop was a different 3.x, iirc.  This would be a jpr or Tony
question.

Cheers,
-- jra

> Unixware is not only SysV4 but actually SysV5 and is in fact the only SysV5
> implimentation anywhere.

Is it *really*?  I hadn't realized that there was ever a Version 5 of
the System V Interface Definition; the authoritative source for AT&T
Unix version numbering.

> The very next version of OSR will be Unixware's kernel with the system
> working like OSR. Whether that means OSR 5.0.8 will be sysv5 or not I'm not
> sure. In-house they called it "FrankenServer" when they were first trying it
> out. :)

If it's a completely different system, and they call it 5.0.8, they'll
likely lose all their remaining technical customers.  It would be
enough excuse for *me*.

That's either 3.2v6.0, or (more properly) 5.0v1.0.  3.2v5.0.8 is right out.

Cheers,
-- jra
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