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From: mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SVR4 shipping, sort of, allegedly; Microport is baaaaack
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.165130.11299@oct1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 16:51:30 GMT
Reply-To: mason@oct1.UUCP (David Mason)
Organization: Open Computer Technology
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evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>aab@cichlid.com (Andrew A. Burgess) writes:
>>People are interested in the little guys like Microport and ESIX
>>because they can give you alot of bang for the buck.
>
>And, because they're small, they tend to refrain from re-inventing
>wheels.

And they refrain from inventing their own `standards':

            "Then they added standards no one else had.
                 And that was just the beginning."

Quote from an SCO Unix 3.2 advertisement, back cover, Unix World
September 1989.  The quote was self-referring to The SCO.
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David               |      mason@oct1 (David M Mason)
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