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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ACCESS TO SHARED TAPEDRIVES
Message-ID: <6867@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 87 23:58:21 GMT
References: <10843@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <10843@brl-adm.ARPA> by bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein):
+---------------
| Doug Gwyn writes
| >Let's not reopen the old silly "my system is better than yours" debate.
| >Or at least, let's use better logic.
| 
| Or even better, let's keep pointing out that the debate is over, Sun
| and AT&T will be merging and delivering one system in the near future.
+---------------

Let's get real here.  Any V.3/4.3 merge product will come out no sooner
than 1990.

+---------------
| Any such system comparisons between 4.x and SysV will become a thing
| of the past and anyone hung up on such concepts will be a dinosaur.
+---------------

...until 4.4BSD comes out.  ;-)  (Round and round and round it goes....)

Has anyone considered that the reason Bell Labs moved from V8 to V9 without
releasing V8 is so they can have a monopoly on version numbers?  After all,
System V and 4.xBSD are kinda stuck, whereas V9 can be followed by V10...
Maybe Dennis Ritchie is trying to tell us something!  ;-) ;-)
-- 
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