Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix Message-ID: Date: 4 Sep 90 15:26:09 GMT References: <3865@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1990Sep4.063729.27822@wrl.dec.com> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 26 In-reply-to: vixie@wrl.dec.com's message of 4 Sep 90 06:37:29 GMT In article <1990Sep4.063729.27822@wrl.dec.com> vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) writes: | In article , | meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes... | # I happen to think that System V integration was real low priority on | # Ultrix. All you have to do is look at how they botched curses | # (requiring you to change the source to include cursesX.h instead of | # curses.h). Sun did a much better job of mixing the two. | | As far as that goes, HP did an even better job than Sun. And Pyramid | did a better job that ANYBODY. But why does anybody care about System V? | | (Not speaking for DEC -- we seem to care about System V...) Because each of the various UNIX camps have good things to offer (such as the V.2 /bin/sh and curses in the System V case). IMHO, I think Pyramid's solution (separate att/ucb universes) is the wrong solution. I want a merged system, not two systems under the same roof...... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?