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From: davel@hpisoa1.HP.COM (Dave Lennert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: AT&T/Sun merged OS
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Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:18:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 19:18:11 1987
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I recall that in the recent past the following company pairs
have announced their intention to jointly define THE unix os:

	AT&T / Microsoft	(for the 386)
	AT&T / Sun		(for the SPARC)
	Sun  / National Advanced Systems (subsidiary of National Semiconductor)

Note that both Sun and AT&T have jointly agreed to develop this standard
with each other and with someone else.

Is this a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?
Or does this imply that National Advanced Systems is now working with
Microscoft?  (Are legal agreements transitive? ;-) )

"The future of Unix will be determined by..., what's today? Tuesday?, oh...
by AT&T and Sun."

-Dave Lennert   HP   ihnp4!hplabs!hpda!davel