Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!dawn!stpeters From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell... Message-ID: <7972@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 18:02:36 EST Article-I.D.: steinmet.7972 Posted: Tue Nov 24 18:02:36 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 01:20:41 EST References: <279@caus-dp.UUCP> <6704@brl-smoke.ARPA> <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA> Sender: root@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 25 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.questions:5076 comp.unix.wizards:5600 In article <6721@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >The 8th and 9th Edition UNIX series (aka V8 & V9) were developed by Bell Labs >CS research staff for their own use and were also made available to a small >select group of universities that could contribute to the development of the >system. They were not made available for general commercial licensing and are >not used by AT&T for "production" systems; the UNIX System V product line >prevails there. Being at an R&D lab, I expect a company's research version of something to be beyond what it sells. However, at USENIX a few years ago when Edition 8 was the AT&T research version, AT&T employees gave the impression that a release of Edition 8 was in widespread use within AT&T, not just at BTL. AT&T employess turned GE employees have since confirmed the impression that Edition 8 was widely distributed and used within AT&T as an internal production version (on a scale exceeding anything that could reasonably be considered beta testing) substantially before any of its features were incorporated into what was promoted to paying customers as the commercial UNIX standard. -- Dick St.Peters GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@ge-crd.arpa uunet!steinmetz!stpeters