<operating system, abuse> The sort the speaker is used to.
People from the BSDophilic academic community are likely to
issue comments like "System V? Why don't you use a *real*
operating system?", people from the commercial/industrial
Unix sector are known to complain "BSD? Why don't you use a
*real* operating system?", and people from IBM object "Unix?
Why don't you use a *real* operating system?"
See holy wars, religious issues, proprietary, Get a
real computer!.
[Jargon File]
(1997-03-12)
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