Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:27:10 04/24/02
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On April 24, 2002 at 05:10:12, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On April 23, 2002 at 12:09:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 23, 2002 at 10:41:08, Eelco de Groot wrote: >> >>>Not as fast as the 35 Teraflops supercomputer recently made operational in >>>Japan, http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?224426 ,but with 8.3 >>>Teraflops it's still pretty fast: >>>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/04/18/doe.linux.idg/index.html >>> >>>I think they may use it for research and modeling of geologic CO2 storage >>>amongst other things, at the Department Of Energy. But does this mean that for >>>large computers Linux is now better or at least equally good an Operating System >>>as Unix? >>> >>> Eelco >> >> >>Linux _is_ Unix... > >Thanks for clearing that up, Robert, I knew that Linux was based on Unix but I >didn't know that there are also now ports to mainframes of it. I believe that >IBM started with those earlier this year? So what does one do these days to get >more information? Go to Google and type "Unix Linux differences" and read "many >journalists failed to notice that Linux is Unix in all but legal title" It is >comforting to know that I was not the only one who didn't know. Great service, >Google. I read that they now have a paid service also were you can pose the >really difficult questions and researchers go looking for answers for you. They >are still hiring researchers. > > Eelco POSIX is the relevant standard. Today all unix variants (solaris, irix, hp-ux, aix, linux, unicos, and others I have probably forgotten) follow this standard, which means they are equivalent from the C programming point of view as well as the user interface point of view (GUIs are not included of course).
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