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Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:59:27 EST
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In article <840@nesac2.UUCP> jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes:
>In article <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) writes:

>> *9*th Edition?  Just how far has AT&T carried this "Edition" stuff
>> while I've been out of touch?  Last I knew (admittedly some time ago),
>> mere customers were supposed to settle for SYSV while Edition 8 was
>> for AT&T internal use.  That a company won't use its own product
>> doesn't exactly help it push that product as a standard ...

>But the internal use 'Edition' is (eventually) the next revision of
>the 'commercial' product.

>The internal Editions are not always a product you'd want to use in
>production - how many guru's of what degree do you have for local
>support? :-)

Plenty of people were running various unsupported versions long before
AT&T offered support.  Where do you think Unix got it's reputation?
From system V?    Perhaps you don't care to do your own support,
but lots of people *are* willing to do their own support, and would
like to be able to use some of the stuff in v8/v9.

Snoopy
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