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From: jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: PS1 and the bourne shell...
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Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 20:52:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 20:52:15 1987
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Summary: what Edition is
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In article <7936@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters) writes:
> 
> *9*th Edition?  Just how far has AT&T carried this "Edition" stuff
> while I've been out of touch?  Last I knew (admittedly some time ago),
> mere customers were supposed to settle for SYSV while Edition 8 was
> for AT&T internal use.  That a company won't use its own product
> doesn't exactly help it push that product as a standard ...

But the internal use 'Edition' is (eventually) the next revision of
the 'commercial' product.

The internal Editions are not always a product you'd want to use in
production - how many guru's of what degree do you have for local
support? :-)
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