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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix actuaria
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.033930.2797@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 03:39:30 GMT
References: <1357@inews.intel.com>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington Ultrix Resource Center
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In article <1357@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Clear something up for me:  how long does DEC plan to
>support/upgrade Ultrix?  Will they need to do so once
>they have a POSIX-compliant VMS?  Will they want to?

	Considering that we're selling lots of machines that VMS won't
run on, we'd be awfully dumb to dump ULTRIX. I assume your posting must
be a joke - the amount of resources DEC has invested in the UNIX
marketplace should tell even the most cynical how serious DEC has
gotten about UNIX/ULTRIX/OSF-1.

mjr.
-- 
	How can something called "UNIX(Tm)" be "open"?
		[From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990]