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From: jg@quabbin.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Rumours about "new" U*IX ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.220635.29907@crl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Jan 91 22:06:35 GMT
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In article <1991Jan12.174914.26621@crl.dec.com> jg@quabbin.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
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>And given experience here at CRL with earlier snapshots, OSF/1 can indeed 
>provide Ultrix compatibility, so one's existing code runs just fine
>barring the ususal exceptions of programs that open /dev/kmem and grovel
>through kernel data structures that have traditionally broken between
>releases (though OSF/1 provides clean interfaces to kernel data structures,
>that should even reduce this problem in the future.).
>We certainly ran large piles of exiting executable we have here on it last

Boy, some folks give me grief over typo's; I meant executables, of course...
And they didn't even exit execept when they were supposed to :-).

>spring and summer (like lots of DECwindows application, etc.), and were quite 
>pleased.

I sur kan't spel gud... :-).
			- Jim

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