Mail Archives: opendos/2000/10/29/20:49:45
Patrick Moran wrote:
They were probably aliased. When I had an account at Western Michigan
University, they had quite a few VMS commands alised to familar DOS like
commands.
> The neat thing I liked about VMS was that you
> could just type in the first few unique characters of a command and execute
> it without typing the whole command.
I have never heard of different versions of Unix called clones. Unix is
bigger than one brand. I have heard Linux called a Unix clone. If I
remember what I read, Bell Labs (AT&T) code was the basis for all Unix
and has been modified by many.... in a nut shell.
> I read somewhere that Bell Labs released UNIX in 1976. Bell Labs developed
> the UNIX operating system. I think what he was ealking about is ATT SYSTEM V
> UNIX, SCO UNIX, MS XENIX, QNX and many other such UNIX like OSes. These are
> not really clones as you stated but neither are IBM PC clones, but this is
> the term generally used. Actually when you get down to it, the same is true
> for the many different DOSes available for the IBM PC. They could all be
> called clones of DOS. The only real difference between them are the kernels.
> The same is true for so-called UNIX clones such as SCO, QNX, LINUX, BSD, and
> XENIX to name just a few. In fact SCO (Santa Cruze Operating system) has
> made changes in thier kernel to be able to run Linux apps and software.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
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