[Gllug] HP Compaq?

[Ian Northeast]

David Damerell wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, 5 Sep 2001, Matthew Bunter wrote:
> >OS/390 (now known as zOS) IS a Unix
> >http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/facts.html
> 
> No, it isn't; for God's sake don't believe everything you read. That's
> like saying NT is a UNIX because it has a POSIX compatibility
> subsystem.

It *is* a UNIX - simply because IBM have the necessary license for the
name and they market it as such. It's nothing like Unix underneath, but
then neither is AIX.

By the same token, Linux (and *BSD for that matter) is not a UNIX, even
though it is much more like a "traditional" Unix than zOS is.

Regards, Ian

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