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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Commodore and "standards"
Message-ID: <90346.222925JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 03:29:25 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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>>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.

Anyone else notice that this isn't the first time Commodore has
adopted an impending "standard" only to be screwed when nobody
else adopted it?  It sure happened with the IFF "standard"...
:-(

                                                            Kurt
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