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)