Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!whuts!homxb!homxc!dwc From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: lim ((n -> infinity) UNIX System V Release n) == Multics ? Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 Multics complexity kludge Message-ID: <4516@homxc.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 88 00:20:38 GMT References: <422@ubbpc.UUCP> Organization: Legion of Dynamic Discord Lines: 17 In article <422@ubbpc.UUCP>, wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes: > Now, for my point: can small-to-medium UN*X software vendors cope with this > complexity? I see several things that might happen: > > (1) The market might reject Sys V Release 4 as too bulky (not likely, but > possible: this might move people to OSF/AIX), i suspect that since BOTH camps will be trying to get the edge on each other in terms of new functionality and compatibility with everything under the sky (i was going to say SUN but that might be taken literally), that the systems are going to get larger and larger very fast. UNLESS 'smallness' of a system becomes a selling point... danny chen att!homxc!dwc