Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: GNU Ramblings, Unix thoughts.
Keywords: Gnu Unix Operating Systems Compatibility Support 4.3BSD
Message-ID: <151@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 15:58:23 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <1351@sugar.UUCP> <850@elmgate.UUCP> <5166@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <643@actnyc.UUCP> <425@genesis.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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In article <425@genesis.ATT.COM> andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes:
>You might also consider why SUN went to so much trouble to merge the
>4.3BSD features into System V and to pursuade (coerce) AT&T into
>taking back the merged product.  It was precisely the "user written
>- not supported" nature of BSD that they wanted to get away from. 
>That, and having to support more than one operating system.

You've got to be kidding.  Sun couldn't "coerce" AT&T with a nuke.

Sun doesn't care about the "unsupported" nature of BSD Unix -- with all of
Sun's proprietary work, SunOS is hardly BSD anymore.

What Sun wants is the marketing appeal of "System V - From Now On, Consider
It [Sub-]Standard".  Pyramid has done well with OSx, their dual port of BSD
and System V.  Sun is doing one better; they're getting AT&T to take the
result back, thus making the combined OS a new standard.

"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
-- 
Chip Salzenberg                 UUCP: "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
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