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From: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (from BYTE)
Message-ID: <170@hdr.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 21:44:58 GMT
References: <11129@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
Organization: HDR Systems, Inc.
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In article <11129@brl-adm.ARPA> mwm@violet.Berkeley.EDU (My watch has windows) writes:
>A clean OS designed & written with the lessons learned since Unix was
>first written has been needed for a while. But a Unix rewrite is a
>non-trivial effort, and not liable to happen. So I look for some new
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Wrong. a Unix rewrite is already in the works.  This was mentioned
by Bill Joy at the December Sun Users Group Convention in San Jose.
The new 'enhanced' version of System V will be rewritten from scratch
in C++.  The slide he showed had all the major flavors of Unix being
merged back into one product.

Does anyone have any more information on this?
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