Re: Re: [VirtualNET open?]...

>BC#@>Can someone explain UNIX to me. What is it?
>UNIX is an operating system originally developed by Bell Labs in 1969 (or
>is that '68, I don't remember), which has been and currently is the
>mainstream development operating system for mainframes and very high end
>computers.  The C programming language was developed at the same time that
>UNIX was, and both are linked in terms of how they work.
>In the 70's, UNIX was split into two "camps"... AT&T continued development
>of their UNIX (which became known as System V UNIX, currently on revision 4
>(so it's known as System 5, release 4, or SVR4)), and there's a "free" form
>of UNIX based on ideas from AT&T which came out of the University of
>California at Berkeley (that UNIX, known as "BSD" for Berkeley System
>Development, became an industry standard).

     Hey, thanks for taking the time to punch all that in.  Really insightful.
  I enjoyed it. (=