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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
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Subject: Re: Looks like AT&T is leaving DEC owners in the cold!
Message-ID: <191@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Nov-85 18:21:01 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 23 18:21:01 1985
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Summary: what about BTL vaxes?

In article <2073@aecom.UUCP>, naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger) writes:
> The upcoming releases of System V are no longer supporting DEC equipment.
> This includes System V release 2.1 (prerelease) and System V
> release 3.  AT&T is obviously trying to force DEC people to
> buy AT&T equipment.  

This is pretty ludicrous, given that the largest purchaser of
DEC hardware in the world (with the exception of DoD) has
been AT&T Bell Labs.  To run, you guessed it, AT&T UNIX.

> Does anyone know if DEC will be supporting System V?  

DEC's having enough trouble supporting BSD. :-)  Besides,
I've seen very little evidence that anyone wants System V
on a VAX, except:

	* AT&T sites
	* Sites involved in AT&T projects
	* Sites hosting a port of System V to another
	  computer

Maybe the answer is that nobody wanted it.  In some ways, that's
too bad; for example, once you've used System V's make on a large
project you'll never go back.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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