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From: hakanson@ogccse.ogc.edu (Marion Hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: What happened at SURF?
Message-ID: <5591@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 20:46:07 GMT
References: <16444@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <62094@peregrine.peregrine.com> <90818@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: hakanson@ogccse.UUCP (Marion Hakanson)
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, OR
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In article <90818@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>Sequent has also promised their SVR3/POSIX port on the Subsequent, although
>there's no real indication of when that's going to be available; rumor has in
>1Q 1990. (What I want to know is, why is Sequent hell-bent on an SVR3 port at
>a time when everyone else I can think of is getting ready to ship SVR4?)
>
><csg>

I can't say "why" for sure, but it certainly follows their tradition.
After all, they're still shipping (primarily) 4.2bsd in DYNIX, when
the majority of the BSD-based world has been shipping 4.3bsd (and
beyond) for years.  Be happy they're looking at POSIX....

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