Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Unix rewrite (was: Jerry Pournelle)
Message-ID: <1814@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 17:43:20 GMT
References: <11129@brl-adm.ARPA> <170@hdr.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <170@hdr.UUCP> eric@hdr.UUCP (Eric J. Johnson) writes:
>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.

AT&T is buying 20% of Sun, according to yesterday's San Jose Mercury.
AT&T and Sun apparently have plans to merge 4.3bsd, SunOS, and SysV
and have the result accepted as the One True Unix.
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