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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: GNU Ramblings, Unix thoughts.
Message-ID: <7907@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 88 18:44:33 GMT
References: <153@mozart.UUCP> <1351@sugar.UUCP> <850@elmgate.UUCP> <5166@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <643@actnyc.UUCP> <425@genesis.ATT.COM> <151@ateng.UUCP>
Reply-To: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: Gnu Unix Operating Systems Compatibility Support 4.3BSD

In article <151@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>
>You've got to be kidding.  Sun couldn't "coerce" AT&T with a nuke.
>

Sun is the Big Gorrilla is Unix, folks. Whatever they do is a de-facto
standard, and AT&T is, among other things, accepting that standard.
Sun may not have "coerced" AT&T into unsing their software, using
their hardware architecture, and blessing it all as standard, but
market reality has.

It is really amazing that at practically every twist and turn in the
Unix market Sun has made the right decision and AT&T has made the
wrong decision. Now if they can get all the software vendors to dance
to the same user interface tune, watch out!

-Zigurd

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