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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX (V.4 -- the standardizer)
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.005522.27397@pegasus.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 00:55:22 GMT
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>	Both SCO Xenix and SCO UNIX have *always* used /usr/spool/mail.
>Sun and many BSD-based systems have followed that same convention. Perhaps
>once Intel, ATT, ISC and SCO get together on the next UNIX 386 binary
>standard they will clear up these and other subtle differences.

It appears that V.4 will be go a long way to creating a more unified Unix.
It introduces many changes, but it has a lot of momentum.

And because it takes a great deal of work to bring up a new port the
first round or two of releases will probably be fairly generic, the
vendors not having enough time to mix in their own pet features.



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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com