Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Fortune) 6/7/84; site rhino.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!foros1!rhino!marcum From: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: Is System V going down the tube? Message-ID: <213@rhino.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Oct-84 03:18:18 EDT Article-I.D.: rhino.213 Posted: Tue Oct 2 03:18:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:20:01 EDT References: <205@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: The Fortune Jungle Lines: 32 An interesting question regarding the statistics Bill Tuthill quoted [vis. Xenix 77% Version 7 20% System III 3% (System V must be 0%)] is, to what do these statistics pertain? Is this a measure of the development genesis of the systems, of the licensing path taken by the various manufacturers, or what? One would expect that several thousand (yes, THOUSAND) Un*x installations would show up SOMEWHERE in the above figures, yes? And yet, Fortune Systems ("For:Pro") is nowhere listed. UNLESS, of course, we talk about the licensing agreements, in which case For:Pro is included in the Xenix figure. Note that For:Pro is NOT a Xenix re-port. Neither is For:Pro Xenix based. For financial reasons, though, Fortune's LICENSE is based on the Xenix license. As far as the technical port is concerned, For:Pro is V7 based, with many of the 4.1 commands included. Fortune has made many kernel modifications, including several to the scheduler, new I/O drivers, and a mechanism for automatically determining the device controllers attached to the system and accessing the appropriate device drivers dynamically. (Note that these statements are NOT official Fortune positions, merely observations based on my experiences.) -- Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California ...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rhino!marcum