Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why UNIX? Or, What hath AT&T wrought? Message-ID: <1693@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 14 Dec 87 21:15:37 GMT References: <1509@motown.UUCP> <6813@brl-smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 15 Keywords: nitpicking In article <6813@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) writes: >AT&T quit providing new releases for the VAX in 1984, rightly observing >that computer vendors (DEC in this case) should take care of this >themselves. Rather than a question of what's "right" and what "should" be done, which sound like moral stands, I suspect it was purely a business decision that AT&T probably thought would be better for its financial health. Could be a touch of NIH too. I think the decision to drop support for VAX hardware probably hurt AT&T's apparent goal of establishing System V as a standard. -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi