Pyramid system design

Mark Wallen wallen at sdics.UUCP
Wed Jul 30 16:56:45 AEST 1986


I can think of two other reasons why Pyramid may have chosen
to implement two complete sets of utilities (i.e., 4.2 ones and
sysV ones).  The first is the porting cost; if you REALLY have
a sysV system, why screw around with a 4.2 utility?  Just bring
up the sysV one.  And visa versa.  The second is a little
recursive, but: what better way to test a sysV port that to bring
up (by simply compiling) it's idiosyncratic utilites (e.g., uucp);
if they work, you have a sysV port.  If not, ???

Mark Wallen

UC San Diego



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