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From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Online Manual needed (was Re: ISC vs SCO UNIX review)
Message-ID: <665@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 89 19:28:46 GMT
References: <5866@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1989Oct27.164926.14713@world.std.com> <[390.3]comp.unix.i386;1@point.UUCP> <461@mwtech.UUCP> <36311@ism780c.isc.com>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <36311@ism780c.isc.com> support@ism780c.UUCP (Support
account) writes:
> ... we are pleased to advise that the next release of the 386/ix
> Operating System, release 2.2, due out in Q1 1990, will contain
> significant documentation improvements.

That's very nice, but I was hoping for System V Release 4.0 in the first
quarter of 1990.  As I recall, perfectly-adequate, on-line documentation
was being shipped with systems sold in the early 1980's.

According to the November 1, 1989 issue of UNIX International GAZETTE,
Release 4.0 was running on a 386/486 at the UNIX EXPO tradeshow, thanks
I believe to NEC, and a pre-release version has been available to both
ISC and SCO for some time.
--
John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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