Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: SCO doesn't sell UNIX (V.4 -- the standardizer)
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.210527.28354@eci386.uucp>
Date: 9 Dec 90 21:05:27 GMT
References: <1990Dec1.225346.16828@NCoast.ORG> <1990Dec02.213409.17190@ka3ovk.irs.GOV> <165@raysnec.UUCP> <1990Dec5.005522.27397@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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In article <1990Dec5.005522.27397@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
> 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.

Though I've never had a problem with the multipicity of UNIX variants
(writing modern, portable, applications is easy, just so long as you
don't restrict yourself to some silly subset, such as V7), I also feel
SysVr4 will bring together (unify) UNIX users.  As for changes,
progress is impossible without change.

> 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.

From what I've seen, SysVr4 will significantly reduces the amount of
effort required to port it to new architectures.  Regardless, I do
hope it takes some vendors a great deal of time (hopefully infinity)
to introduce their own pet features.  SysVr4 is "standard"; let's
leave it that way!  (I.e. if SCO do introduce SysVr4, and it includes
"custom", I'll puke!)
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							Greg A. Woods
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