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Subject: Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
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In article <uda1lg-qnt.ln1@Telcontar.valinor>
"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
>
> On 27/03/2020 00.23, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:
> > In article <9qkukg-0p3.ln1@Telcontar.valinor>
> > "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 26/03/2020 09.52, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> >>> In article <vlpskg-n6g.ln1@Telcontar.valinor>
> >>> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 25/03/2020 11.14, Johann Beretta wrote:
> >>>>> On 9/15/19 3:20 PM, AnonLinuxUser wrote:
> >>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> After looking around, I found what Linux was originally intended to do...
> >>>>>> Learn UNIX for free on a PC.  Then the suggestion was to maybe be
> >>>>>> qualified for a UNIX job.  Tho not all of linux is identically the same.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Your comparison itself is false (although not deliberately of course).
> >>>>
> >>>> It is true that I installed Linux initially to learn Unix, as I could
> >>>> not pay a Unix system. Unix (and Linux) was used by my employer company.
> >>>> Perhaps on summer 1998. Seeing that a serious company was using Linux on
> >>>> important tasks told me that Linux was a serious thing, not a hobby.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then I liked it and kept it, eventually almost replacing Windows for me.
> >>>>
> >>>>> UNIX isn't even identical to UNIX,
> >>>>
> >>>> Typo? :-)
> >>>
> >>> Nope, he said it right.
> >>
> >> Then please explain, because I don't understand it.
> >
> > Think of it in terms of a car wheel.
> >
> > All car wheels are round, have rubber tires and roll on the
> > ground, but the similarity ends there.  The center holes may be
> > smaller or larger and the lug holes may be spaced differently.
> > Overall, every wheel will roll and has the same basic
> > functionality - but the tires on one wheel may not fit another.
> > None of that stops the wheel from performing the task it was
> > conceived for and designed to do.
> >
>
> It would suffice that it as a play on words meaning that each UNIX is
> different from other UNIXes.
>
> Your explanation actually tells me nothing and I would have to ask again
> what you meant, were not for other people that yesterday told me that it
> was a play of words.

i didn't have any problem with the op's analogy.  i would have 
used houses painted different colours as an example.

the point is unix is flexible and can lend itself to many 
variations without losing the original functions.  in every 
evolution it is still unix.