moving from SCO to Linux

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jul 23 18:18 , Jay R. Ashworth moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

> 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.

SCO Unix went to Open Desktop 1, Open Desktop 2, Open Desktop 3,
and the Open Server 5.

I remember the painful OD2 install - it took forever - feeding
in close to 50 floppies in successon.    About the same number
as on the AIX for Intel, but at least in SCO you did not have to
insert the same floppy 2,3, or more times.  

> 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.

And all that changed when Novell sold Unix.

You now have to sort through the stuff from  unix.org,
opengroup.org and possibly one more to even begin to make sense.

The current Single Unix Specification is now known as IEEE Std 1003.2

And you will got lost in a quagmire of publications.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com