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From: crovella@sunybcs.uucp (Mark Crovella)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: UNIX to be rewritten in C++
Message-ID: <7766@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 21:07:36 GMT
References: <398@grand.UUCP>
Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP
Reply-To: crovella@gort.UUCP (Mark Crovella)
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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Keywords: C++,unix,operating systems

In article <398@grand.UUCP> day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
>I thought the following would be of great interest to C++ people:
>
>From: eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson)
>
>... 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. ...

I believe this relates to a joint effort among Sun, AT&T, and
Microsoft to create something called UNIX-TM.  According to the
local Sun rep., this will be a merger of BSD, XENIX, and SysV (!)
and will have a binary specification similar to the SVID.  It is
supposed to be out by late 1989.

And it _will_ be written in c++!
Mark Crovella           "Reflect, ponder, excogitate, reply." - J.Joyce
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