Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Why UNIX? Or, What hath AT&T wrought? Message-ID: <6834@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: 15 Dec 87 04:25:18 GMT References: <1509@motown.UUCP> <6813@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1693@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 12 In article <1693@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: >I think the decision to drop support for VAX hardware probably hurt >AT&T's apparent goal of establishing System V as a standard. I think so, too, but then AT&TIS seemed to think they were in the iron business, not the software business. You know what Harvard Business School graduate managers are like! By the way, I read that besides Uniq, HCR (Toronto) also provides a VAX UNIX System V Release 3. Because neither the OS originator nor the iron vendor offer this, the field is open for such third parties.