Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!rutgers!mtune!codas!usfvax2!pdn!reggie From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: AT&T/Sun merged UNIX Message-ID: <2163@pdn.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 88 14:07:09 GMT References: <11558@brl-adm.ARPA> Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo FL Lines: 41 In article <11558@brl-adm.ARPA> bzs%bu-cs.bu.edu@bu-it.bu.edu (Barry Shein) writes: >From: Doug Gwyn >>Of course it would be pretty stupid for the AT&T/Sun merged OS >>project to not track the standards, but they haven't been immune >>from stupidity in the past. [Barry's discussion concerning the needs to address various "Modern Needs" deleted.....] >Personally, I consider the ATT/Sun merger a welcome and long overdue >kick in the ass. > -Barry Shein, Boston University Clap, clap, clap!!! I agree! For several years I participated in a task force at Bell Communications Research where we had been charged with the mission of establishing a UNIX Standard Operating Environment. I felt that for the most part, we were not going to dictate to vendors what features to include in their UNIX offerings. It also seemed obvious that many vendors, starting with Pyramid's OSx, were offering dual ports of BSD and System V flavored UNIX. To me this indicated that the two had to be merged some day in order for UNIX to survive and thrive in the future. This action by Sun and AT&T is simply the logical extension of this work. They are for the most part the two main proponents of the two strains of UNIX. Who else should do this? A committee? I think we can all agree that any language or OS that is designed by committee is destined to fail due to the politics involved. The key here is what AT&T and Sun will do to ensure that the rest of the industry will go along with them. -- George W. Leach Paradyne Corporation {gatech,rutgers,attmail}!codas!pdn!reggie Mail stop LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 Largo, FL 34649-2826