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
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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.
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