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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.unix
Subject: Re: Disturbing News re. DEC and UNIX
Message-ID: <131@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 18:29:59 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.131
Posted: Wed Dec 18 18:29:59 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Dec-85 05:51:00 EST
References: <177@ecrcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Keywords: "Fear not!" VAX Ultrix DEC BSD SystemV
Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:16183 net.unix:6681
Summary: Ultrix 1.2 has 4.2 + SVID, according to DEC

In article <177@ecrcvax.UUCP> snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) writes:
>The news is, that DEC will in future support System V on its
>VAX products.

The official line from DEC is that Ultrix 1.2 (the next release,
for those of us who aren't already beta-testing it) will be built
on the current release (1.1, which is 4.2 + frills) but it will
also meet the System V Interface Description (SVID).  In other
words, DEC claims that any program which meets the specifications
in the SVID (roughly equivalent to s5r2.0v2 +/- 2) can be compiled
and run under Ultrix 1.2 with no loss of functionality.  They say
that at the same time it will also exhibit all the lovable charac-
teristics of 4.2 BSD with a good number of performance enhancements
from 4.3 BSD thrown in.

I have removed net.followup from the header, and hope all people
of good sense did the same.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}