Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!elroy!david 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 Lines: 35 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! -- David Robinson elroy!david@csvax.caltech.edu ARPA david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov ARPA {cit-vax,ames}!elroy!david UUCP Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!