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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 5 Dec 90 19:18:26 GMT
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In <4e6afc49.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>, rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
>In article <14712@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) writes:
>>IBM's AIX, Apple's A/UX, and NeXT are not embracing this [SysVR4]
>>standard.  Workstation vendors are.
>
>I couldn't resist interjecting: _some_ workstation vendors are.
>As you note, IBM (RS/6000) isn't.  HP/Apollo isn't.  DEC (to the
>best of my knowledge) isn't.  Unless/until OSF and UI merge their
>product, there still won't be a single industry standard "Unix",
>whatever that means.

DEC _IS_ embracing SVR4, according to a blurb I read in a Unix mag about a
month or two ago. Caused quite a chucle around our office.

-larry

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