Re: tlug: Pronunciation

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com> writes:

    Chris> (latency of five minutes?  Usually the list is _much_
    Chris> slower than that.  Scott, did you fix a problem?)

    Chris> On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

    >> System V: System Vee or System Five?

    Chris> I've always said system five, but YMMV.

"system FIVE" but "sys VEE", dou desu ka.

As for Linux's heritage, Linus took the best of what was available (=
useful and he knew how to code it ;-) at the time and it was a pretty
mongrel mix.

Look at the myriad exceptions in any $EMACSSRC/src/s/linux.h and the
$EMACSSRC/src/m/ files that have to do with Linux, or look at the
exceptions in the Imake configuration files of X11 sources.  It seems
to be purely a matter of personal preference whether Linux is handled

#define BSD
#ifdef LINUX
    /* make all this stuff SysV-ish */

or

#define SYSV
#ifdef LINUX
    /* make all this stuff BSD-ish */

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