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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Why DEC doesn't need an ABI
Message-ID: <8221@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 17:53:12 GMT
References: <8185@ncoast.UUCP> <686@spectrix.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <686@spectrix.UUCP> by clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis (It's loose again!)):
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| In article <8185@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
| |that (a) DEC does not license the VAX processor for anyone else's use, and
| |(b) DEC sells the only true commercial VAX UNIX.
| 
| And I agree that most of the other versions of UNIX you mention aren't
| "commercial".  But, what about HCR's SVR3 for VAXen?  They've been shipping
| for several months now (I think).  That I would consider "commercial"...
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I hadn't heard of that, and hereby withdraw my argument.  Thanks for the
update.

++Brandon
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