Asri-unix.567
net.unix-wizards
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!Dave-Yost@RAND-UNIX
Mon Jan 18 21:05:09 1982
Re: UNIX 3.0
Sender: day at RAND-UNIX
A UNIX III license provides for good OEM prices, yes.
But that doesn't mean that the OEM has to ship 3.0.  He
can ship any combination of 3.0 or earlier stuff he
wants to put together.

I hope to God W.E. gets on the stick and opens up
educational 3.0 licenses ASAP, so Berkeley can merge
what they like from it into the VAX distribution, and
make a new standard.  I shudder to think of the massive
duplication of effort and multiplicity of versions that
is about to happen when everybody starts to integrate
3.0 with whatever they are running.

Let's all lean hard on W.E. to extend the educational
license to UNIX III.  If they won't do it, and Berkeley
refuses to put any of it into the VAX distribution,
then let's get together some sort of cooperative effort
on the integration.

Remember: close to 100% of all VAXes outside of the Labs
run 4.1bsd.  I bet it will stay that way in the face of 3.0.

--dave