Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!integral!dhare From: dhare%integral@Sun.COM (Dwight Hare) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: AT&T doesn't own Sun (Re: IBM's NeXT User Interface) Keywords: UNIX, AT&T, Sun Message-ID: <69586@sun.uucp> Date: 22 Sep 88 16:38:49 GMT References: <417@nikhefk.UUCP> <3705@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: dhare@sun.UUCP (Dwight Hare) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18 In article <3705@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mouser@portia.stanford.edu (Michael Wang) writes: >AT&T bought a majority stake in Sun >Microsystems to help them merge the different UNIX together and create one >and only one industry standard. Sun has had previous experience in this >since their Sun OS is a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V Release 3. So far so >good. Not quite. AT&T has not bought a majority stake in Sun. AT&T can buy up to 20% of Sun over several years and cannot exceed that unless someone else does. Also, the current SunOS is not a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V Release 3. SunOS was derived from BSD 4.2 with lots of 4.3 stuff migrated in. There is a System V compatibility package and set of binaries, but SunOS is by no means a merge with SVR3. This, of course, has nothing to do with the Mac, but I couldn't let such misinformation go uncorrected.