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From: gallen@apollo.uucp (Gary Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix optimized for SPARC?
Message-ID: <3d127a98.d8e9@apollo.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 88 18:39:00 GMT
References: <253@iconsys.UUCP> <4722@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <3cf8d4d5.d8e9@apollo.uucp> <4741@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <2535@gumby.mips.COM>
Reply-To: gallen@diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <2535@gumby.mips.COM> len@gumby.UUCP (Len Lattanzi) writes:
>In article <4741@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>:In article <3cf8d4d5.d8e9@apollo.uucp> gallen@diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen) writes:
>:|>But that is an old topic. The new one is that OSF plans to
>:|>remove all of the AT&T code eventually.
>:|
>:|Not according to any statement made by anyone at OSF.
>:
>:I read this in one of the trade journals last week. (Can't find the issue).
>:But someone from IBM announced that their eventual plans were to
>:remove all of the AT&T code.
>:
>:I apologize for not having the reference.
>:--
>: Bruce G. Barnett
>: uunet!steinmetz!barnett
>
>See Computer Systems News 6/27/88 "OSF Plans Sunset for AT&T Code"
>
>Ira Goldstein, temporary director of research for OSF and formerly
>manager of R&D for technical systems at HP, made the announcement.
>--
> Len Lattanzi (len@mips.com) <{ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!len>
> Synthesis Software Solutions, Inc.
> 292 Commercial Street, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 408-991-0367
Touche. I couldn't find that particular mag in the library, but I'll accept
what you say. However, I'll restate what was in my follow-up. Sources close
to OSF (you know who you are) were asked repeatedly about this subject. The
answer was always that the legal problems were practically insurmountable.
Thus, it would be practically impossible to avoid royalties to AT&T. Given
that, its hard to see what benefit there would be in replacing code with
other code that does the same thing. Improving, polishing, optimizing, and
just plain hacking may well be in the picture but replacing AT&T code just
because it is that seems a little silly if they have to pay for it anyway.
Gary Allen
Aplool Computer
Chelmsford, MA
{decvax,yale,umix}!apollo!gallen
Oh yeah, you know that stuff about how this doesn't represent the opinion of
anybody that really counts. I wasn't a math major anyway.