Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ulysses!hector!ekrell From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell... Message-ID: <3217@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: Wed, 25-Nov-87 10:19:22 EST Article-I.D.: ulysses.3217 Posted: Wed Nov 25 10:19:22 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Nov-87 01:21:37 EST References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <6704@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7972@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 24 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:5088 comp.unix.wizards:5621 In article <7972@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes: >Being at an R&D lab, I expect a company's research version of >something to be beyond what it sells. However, at USENIX a few years >ago when Edition 8 was the AT&T research version, AT&T employees gave >the impression that a release of Edition 8 was in widespread use >within AT&T, not just at BTL. I don't have hard numbers, but I doubt 8th Edition is in "widespread" use, even in Bell Labs. Most of the Computer Centers in Bell Labs run something called "R&D Unix" which is System V based, with extras. A lot of people run some version of System V. These are all supported products, and Computer Centers love to run those. In "independent" computer centers (run by a particular lab or department) people run whatever they want. Of course, you'll find 8th and 9th Edition running in computer centers in Research, where they come from. But it's far from being widespread. Our computer center has a collection of Vaxen from 750s to 8650s and they all run 4.3 BSD. Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill {ihnp4,seismo,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell