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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Rumours about "new" U*IX ?
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Date: 12 Jan 91 16:58:53 GMT
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In article <7177.278f2835@abo.fi> hege@abo.fi writes:
>A few months ago there was an ad in misc.jobs.offered (I think) where
>Digital looked for people to develop a U*IX that was supposed to be
>"The U*IX of the 90's". In Digital Review (was it December 10, 1990?)
>the editor in chief rumoured something about U*IX/OSF-version from
>DEC within 6 months. Does anybody have any information about this?

(This is all from memory, I don't have the article in front of me.)
In "Insight" a few months ago there was an article by the Ultrix product
manager about the directions of Ultrix.  He stated that with the next
major release (5.0?) Ultrix will be completely OSF/1 with the Mach
distributed processing kernel.  He also said that they are putting a
lot of effort into making the whole thing look and work the same as
it does now.  What I gather from the article and experience, the 5.0
release should be around the middle of this year or maybe fall.
Any comments from DEC folks out there?

Mike
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