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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
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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.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi