Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!decuac!pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@fenris.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A3000UX competition Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 90 01:54:27 GMT References: <2346@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Sender: news@pa.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 5 Dec 90 19:18:26 GMT 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. Your Unix rag may be wrong. OSF1 is a very nice system indeed (at least for as little as I've looked at it), and DEC has committed to it's next major Ultrix release being based on OSF1. Note that this doesn't mean that DEC won't release a SysVR4 based OS. After all, we've committed to doing a POSIX-compliant version of VMS. Besides IBM, HP, Hitachi and Groupe Bull have all committed to shipping OSF1 based products. Nixdorf, Encore, Intel & Intergraph have also announced OSF1 products. (gee, all but the last three are OSF founders, and OSF1 is heavily based on the Encore Mach product...) Also, watch out for ANDF. If it delivers on it's promises, it'll trump ABI, and make shrink-wrap software for OSF platforms easier than shrink-wrap softare for MSDOS platforms.