Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Binary Compatibility 80286 Message-ID: <819@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 01:02:24 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.819 Posted: Fri Nov 1 01:02:24 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 09:05:08 EST Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:dataioDa:-84400:wdl1:1400080:000:530 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Oct 31 18:28:00 1985 Lack of object compatibility is expensive for the software developer, the software manufacturer, and the software retailer. It is one of the primary reasons that there is no mass-market UNIX software. You can't buy UNIX software at ComputerLand. You can't buy UNIX software from 800-SOFTWARE. You may be able to buy a little at Radio Shack. Collectively, there are enough UNIX boxes out there to support some volume products, but the incompatibilities between machines prevent a market from developing. John Nagle