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From: david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Merged Unix (was Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES)
Message-ID: <5052@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 14 Dec 87 23:10:33 GMT
References: <10843@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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In article <10843@brl-adm.ARPA>, bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> 
> Doug Gwyn writes
> >Let's not reopen the old silly "my system is better than yours" debate.
> >Or at least, let's use better logic.
> 
> Or even better, let's keep pointing out that the debate is over, Sun
> and AT&T will be merging and delivering one system in the near future.
> Any such system comparisons between 4.x and SysV will become a thing
> of the past and anyone hung up on such concepts will be a dinosaur.
> 
> Hallelulah.
> 
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University


I agree that a merged Unix is better than two.  But it makes me
wonder about how the Sun competition is going to feel.  As you
may recall AT&T with the release of SYSVR3 required that any
licensee that sells any part of SYSVR3 with their product
must be fully SVID compliant.  This has been challenged and
AT&T has yeilded to a number of "special" cases but is still
a sore point for many vendors.  If they do this same type of
licensing with the Sun/AT&T Unix (SYS-VI?) it could effectively
kill its chances of success.

People like Apollo might not take kindly to supporting Sun
functionality!


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