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From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD at AT&T
Message-ID: <3276@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 12 Dec 87 20:13:37 GMT
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In article <8170@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes:

>The issue, as I see it, is not which system is better but that AT&T
>has tried its best to impose on everyone else a "one true UNIX" that
>it doesn't feel constrained to impose on itself.

It's not that dictatorial. Witness the current standarization efforts AT&T
is involved in (with Microsoft on Xenix/System V, with Sun on a SPARC standard,
POSIX, etc).

>Maybe if Mr. Krell had to use his own company's product, he just might
>find a way to convince AT&T to improve it enough so everybody *wanted*
>to use it.

That's exactly what I'm doing.  All the kernel work I do is on System V
Release 3.x machines. I'm quite satisfied with the changes we've made
(otherwise I wouldn't be using it). Whether we can convince the powers
to be to include these changes in the official System V distribution
is a completely different problem.
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill

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