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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX Sys V, consider it the only game in town
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 13:24:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 13:24:29 1985
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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In article <6818@brl-tgr.ARPA> Tom Perrine  writes:
||Recently I called ATT Technologies (1-800-828-UNIX).
||
||I was investigating the cost of upgrading a PWB/UNIX source license to
||V7 (so we could get 2.9!). We are a subsidiary license of DoD.
|| ...
||In other words, no matter what you want, you get a Sys V license,
||whether your hardware is supported or not, and they will ship you some
||older system that probably will run on your hardware.
||
||Foo! Maybe MCI, Sprint or GTE should go into the operating system business.
||Anybody have a contact for GNU? I'm completely disgusted.

I don't understand what you're complaining about. If you ever want
to get software from anywhere else, it certainly makes sense for you
to have a System V license rather than something earlier. We went
through the same business two years ago, and we got a System III license
although we're only running v7. May come in useful too.

Dave Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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