Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!doghouse!snoopy From: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell... Message-ID: <9443@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 12:59:27 EST Article-I.D.: tekecs.9443 Posted: Tue Dec 1 12:59:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 03:16:37 EST References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <6704@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <840@nesac2.UUCP> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Reply-To: snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm Lines: 25 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:5166 comp.unix.wizards:5730 In article <840@nesac2.UUCP> jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) writes: >In article <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) writes: >> *9*th Edition? Just how far has AT&T carried this "Edition" stuff >> while I've been out of touch? Last I knew (admittedly some time ago), >> mere customers were supposed to settle for SYSV while Edition 8 was >> for AT&T internal use. That a company won't use its own product >> doesn't exactly help it push that product as a standard ... >But the internal use 'Edition' is (eventually) the next revision of >the 'commercial' product. >The internal Editions are not always a product you'd want to use in >production - how many guru's of what degree do you have for local >support? :-) Plenty of people were running various unsupported versions long before AT&T offered support. Where do you think Unix got it's reputation? From system V?Perhaps you don't care to do your own support, but lots of people *are* willing to do their own support, and would like to be able to use some of the stuff in v8/v9. Snoopy tektronix!doghouse.gwd!snoopy snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com