Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Message-ID: <1988Jun6.004639.7299@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <10978@steinmetz.ge.com> <14181@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 88 00:46:39 GMT > AT&T was no threat because it was never a viable competitor in the > systems business. > > That seems inconsistent. An awful lot of vendors have been bending > over backwards for several years in order to be able to advertise > their conformity with SysVRelN... There is no inconsistency at all; SVRn was a de-facto software standard, not a computer, runnable software for it, or a complete system. The vendors kept up with it for the same reason that they keep up with other standards. It had nothing to do with AT&T's feeble attempts to sell computers. -- "For perfect safety... sit on a fence| Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology and watch the birds." --Wilbur Wright| {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry