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From: phil@inetg1.Arco.Com (Phil Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Will Ultrix...
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.002325.19167@Arco.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 91 00:23:25 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.235721.355@nic.csu.net>, shahryar@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Persian Nightmare) writes:
> Dear all,
> 
> 	I am wondering when DEC plans to re-write Ultrix and base it on
> BSD 4.3 or later.  Personally I think using 4.2 as a standard is
> ok, but 4.3 has so many more nice things we can with it, and with
> 4.4 coming out, hmmmmmmmm??? :-)
> 

DEC is dropping support for BSD all together soon.  OSF/1 is their major
priority right now.  We were told that even bug fixes for ULTRIX are being
weighted as to importance.  For example:  "The first that you will see of
shared libraries will be in OSF/1."

The time table for OSF/1 was stated as "Some time this year."
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