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From: jdarcy@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff d'Arcy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Encore's Multiple OSs
Message-ID: <10448@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 89 19:39:37 GMT
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tperala@UB.D.UMN.EDU (Tim Perala):
> What is the long range plan for your commercial OSs?  Will Mach be
> marketed (is it already) as a third OS?  Will all versions merge
> to produce the heaven-on-earth we all desire? 

Well, I'm only a very small part of Encore, but I'll take a stab at
answering this before I do my grocery shopping.

Encore's intention is to provide the OS and OS features that its
customers want.  Unfortunately there is no concensus within that
group regarding SysV vs. BSD, so we support both.  As the industry
moves to UI and OSF versions of UNIX so, I'm sure, will Encore.
We have no intentions (that I know of) to promote one over the
other.

One note that may be of interest: UMAX (V and 4.x) are the OS group's
responsibility while Mach is under Research.  I don't think anyone
would say there's any kind of "turf wars", and there is a significant
amount of cross-pollination that goes on (we all sit at the same end
of the same building), but there is a natural divergence between the
two groups' goals and methods.  I guess there's a real possibility
that we in the OS group will eventually inherit Encore Mach code through
OSF while Research continues to do...research.

Does this information help anyone?


Jeff d'Arcy     OS/Network Software Engineer     jdarcy@encore.com
  Encore has provided the medium, but the message remains my own