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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: UNIX agreements and standards
Keywords: AT&T/Sun AT&T/Intel/etc POSIX
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Date: 16 Dec 87 23:50:42 GMT
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	Would anyone involved with the AT&T/Intel/Microsoft/SCO/ISC effort 
to create a standard UNIX platform for the Intel 80386 environment care to 
comment upon the ramifications of the recent AT&T/Sun announcements concerning
the merging of SunOS and System V Release 3?  I am sure that many in the UNIX
community would like to see the results of AT&T and Sun's work reflected in the 
80386 UNIX world.

	For that matter, would any other computer vendors in the multi-user
systems arena care to comment as to the future of UNIX standardization in
light of these recent agreements?  It seems that the AT&T/Sun effort should
bring together the System V and BSD strains, while the 80386 effort should 
merge XENIX and System V.  How all of these developments fit into the POSIX
effort scheme is unknown to me, but a defacto standard based upon the a 
combination of Berkeley and AT&T seems to make that a mute point.
-- 
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