Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: UNIX Sys V, consider it the only game in town Message-ID: <263@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 13:24:29 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.263 Posted: Wed Jan 2 13:24:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Jan-85 15:46:32 EST References: <6818@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 25 In article <6818@brl-tgr.ARPA> Tom Perrinewrites: ||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 -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsrgv!lsuc!dave