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Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: unix in the real world
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Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 15:58:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 15:58:33 1985
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This pertains more to some recent comments in the net.lang.c group but
is more applicable to unix in general.
 
In a 10/01/85  article in the Wall Street Journal, wherein they refered to
a new minisupercomputer by Massachusetts Computer Corp. entering the market
place, the next to last paragraph states that they are going to use a Unix 
operating system.

The article then goes on to say that their main competition's customers,
that is Digital, only uses Unix about 10% of the time.

My query is more about Digital.  Perhaps some of you knowledge guru's could
tell me:

	1. What is the operating system(s) most often used by DEC?
	2. Same question as above, but as it regards multi user systems.
	3. Do the other systems offer the inter/intra communications
	   capabilities of a Unix system?
	4. Is there a movement by DEC towards one particular operating
	   system over another (i.e) VMS ?
	5. And more generally, is there a growth in the use of commercial
	   Unix, or is it still the 'baby' of the universities?

I would appreciate your comments as to how one part of the larger world
perceives the Unix community.


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