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Subject: Re: AT&T and the 3B*2
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 23:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 23:33:00 1984
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Nf-From: acf4!tihor    May 31 23:33:00 1984

>> Oh well, so much for UNIX as a standard.  It's amazing how AT&T got up 
>> at the keynote speach at UNIFORUM and said things like Vendor Independence 
>> and Standardization, only to go around constantly contradicting these 
>> fine ideals.

>I don't see how not supplying everything in section 1 of the UNIX User's 
>Manual means that UNIX isn't a standard anymore.  Heck, V6 was the last 
>UNIX that had a nice compact manual; and 4.xBSD and USG UNIX now have 
>rather elephantine sections 1.

But it does mean that the most minimal UNIX System V release 2 that
AT&T sells is all that one can depend on.  The Kernel is there but a
lot of "The Unix Way" is using the tools to build stuff.  The tools
that one cna depend on are now more limited.  Maybe anyhow, it depends
on what intersection of V7, USG 3, and BSD 4.x one was using as the
standard before.)