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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
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Subject: Re: Re: instability in Berkeley versus AT&T releases (absurdly long)
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 11:31:22 EDT
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> > And unbundling everything useful is a real strong point...
> 
> As many people have pointed out, unbundling (a) is a botch, and (b) is
> necessary if you are selling Unix boxes with small disks.  Not everybody
> has Eagles to put it all on.  Whether AT&T's unbundling strategy is
> rational, even given this excuse, is another question... but it is not
> totally without reason.

Venix comes with virtually all the utilities & runs on a PC-XT. That's a 10
megabyte disk, folks. Not an Eagle. That's not a reason, that's not even an
excuse, that's just a rationalisation.