Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!jpd From: jpd@etive.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: att & osf Summary: Uncle Ken tells it like it is Keywords: vms and posix Message-ID: <633@etive.ed.ac.uk> Date: 11 Aug 88 11:34:30 GMT References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug2.171126.17906@utzoo.uucp> <3396@vpk4.UUCP> <249@quintus.UUCP> <1275@sfmag.UUCP> <258@quintus.UUCP> <12118@ncoast.UUCP> <268@quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: jpd@itspna.ed.ac.uk (Paul Dourish) Organization: Concurrent Supercomputer Project, EUCS, Edinburgh University Lines: 18 In article <268@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >I am not a UNIX vendor. If AT&T add VMS compatibility to System V Release >58 that's no skin off _my_ nose. No need. In a recent edition of DEC/Computing (a random UK trade rag), Ken Olsen was quoted as saying that VMS is "... almost 100% POSIX-compliant" and "will be fully compliant soon". Nice to see Ken so hot on UNIX as an emerging standard. He may have taken a rather roundabout route to this position, though :-) -- Paul. -- Paul Dourish, JANET: jpd@uk.ac.ed.itspna Concurrent Supercomputer Project, ARPA: jpd%ed.itspna@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Edinburgh University Computing Service UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!itspna!jpd "Ain't they got no barbers where you come from, boy?"