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From: stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SYS V R4 - When will it be released for Generic 386 boxes?
Summary: who/what first binary release of SVR4 ??
Message-ID: <824@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 89 13:12:59 GMT
References: <89Nov2.084419est.18471@me.utoronto.ca> <1337@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> <1989Nov10.180048.24410@telly.on.ca>
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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Anyone know who will ship the first binary release of SVR4
for any type of hardware ?  AT&T for the 3B2 ?  AT&T for their
WGS 386 ?  I can understand that all the third party suppliers
have to integrate it with their drivers, etc., but if someone
(UI ?) is making such a hoopla about releasing the source code
(for a nontrivial $100K) I sure hope it has been thoroughly
tested and QC'ed on *something*.

If I, as an end-user, really can't get my hands on it for
6-12 months, then all the fanfare about its release last
week is really a nonevent.

	Richard Stevens
	Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
	   stevens@hsi.com
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