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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Why UNIX? Or, What hath AT&T wrought?
Message-ID: <6834@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Dec 87 04:25:18 GMT
References: <1509@motown.UUCP> <6813@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1693@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1693@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>I think the decision to drop support for VAX hardware probably hurt
>AT&T's apparent goal of establishing System V as a standard.

I think so, too, but then AT&TIS seemed to think they were in the
iron business, not the software business.  You know what Harvard
Business School graduate managers are like!

By the way, I read that besides Uniq, HCR (Toronto) also provides
a VAX UNIX System V Release 3.  Because neither the OS originator
nor the iron vendor offer this, the field is open for such third
parties.