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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Dual Universes
Message-ID: <16025@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 May 91 19:34:24 GMT
References: <130311@uunet.UU.NET> <richard.672629724@fafnir.la.locus.com> <14673@ulysses.att.com>
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In article <14673@ulysses.att.com> andys@ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>In article <richard.672629724@fafnir.la.locus.com> richard@locus.com (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
>|>Let's merge BSD and SysV now, resolve the conflicts, then start over
>|>inventing new features to create the next generation of splitting.
>|>At least that split will have started from just one place.
>Pardon my naivete, but isn't that what SVr4 is supposed to do?

Yes, but not everybody is cooperating.
OSF/1, AIX, A/UX, and 4.4BSD all appear to be continuing to evolve
in their own separate ways.