Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3569 comp.sys.misc:1719 comp.os.cpm:1771 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Z-80 Unix? Message-ID: <10400@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 15:09:11 GMT References: <278@pte.UUCP> <1466@ssc.UUCP> <427@ucrmath.UUCP> <865@vsi.UUCP> Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 21 [] "I have never in the meantime seen such a blatant example of gratuitous incompatibility. What is surprising is that this came from the man who cowrite _Elements of Programming Style_, P.J. Plauger." This discussion has overlooked the motivation of Unix incompatibility in Idris. Plauger and associates were scared that AT&T lawyers would shut them down under the trade secret laws because they had access to Unix source code before they formed Whitesmiths. The "galloping incompatibility" was an attempt to demonstrate that Idris was not a Unix rip-off. This was back in the days when the same company that sold Unix would hassle you about adding an unregistered extension phone, and the lowest-cost Unix license was $20,000 (no cheap binaries). I'd say their concern was justified. -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]