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From: day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: UNIX to be rewritten in C++
Keywords: C++,unix,operating systems
Message-ID: <398@grand.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 20:35:32 GMT
Organization: Grand Software, Inc., 213-650-1089, Los Angeles, CA
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I thought the following would be of great interest to C++ people:

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.

... 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. ...

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