Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ulysses!hector!ekrell 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 References: <6740@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3254@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <3053@phri.UUCP> <3259@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <8170@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 23 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 {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell