HP-Unix

Besides simply being a proprietary configured version of Unix, I’m noticing some other general qualities, and one of them is RPC. The RPC offers C routines, written into the OS I suspect, that you can call. It’s interesting how it says at the end of the help screen that it was RPC was developed by Sun Microsystems.

There are lots of RPC commands that come with this HP machine, and they are binary files.   Perhaps some of these things nowdays are built into the normal quoatd or mountd commands, for example, in Linux.

/usr/etc/yp contains info about and the NIS server commands, also developed by Sun.

The thing you’d want to still use a Unix system for would be C programming or the numerous command-line utilities along with shells.  There are Bourne, Korn, C, and Key shells;  I don’t remember Linux having as many command-line utilities, either.  cc means C compiler, but CPP does not stand for C++, instead it stands for C pre-processor, which handles your macros before the straight C compile.

BASH is actually a superset which can process most BOURNE scripting as well.  Korn and C shell are simply an apt-get away on Debian based Linux installs – ksch and csh.

Also, I notice credits given in HP-Unix to MIT, Berkely BSD, Cornell, Sun, etc., which re-inforces the notion that once the AT&T code had been replaced, *nix was off and running.  Unix became a certification rather than a single OS.  When I think of HP-Unix, I think of a customized distro, it has a ‘SAM’ utility to help configure your config files for you, etc.