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