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.
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