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From: rgenter@BBN-LABS-B.arpa (Rick Genter)
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Subject: Multiple Unix Universes
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Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 09:08:40 EDT
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Guy Harris writes:

> The point is that you *can't* hide the differences.  You *have* to choose
> one version of "init", for instance.  And you either have to choose one
> version of UUCP or have the administrator support both.  It's not clear that
> a 99% solution is enough better than a 97% solution to justify all the extra
> gore needed to get that last 2%; the law of diminishing returns takes over.
> There ain't no 100% solution.
> - -- 
> 	Guy Harris
> 	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
> 	guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)

There is a 100% solution, though as far as I know no one has actually
implemented it yet.  See my paper "Unix as a Virtual Machine Environment"
from the Atlanta Usenix Proceedings.
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I wonder if I could ever get started in the credit world?