Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: AT&T/Sun merged UNIX
Message-ID: <1988Feb16.182913.226@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11722@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 16-Feb-88 18:29:10 EST

> Which is one of the serious problems with the Sun/AT&T merge: can a standard
> that has both  NFS and RFS, and both X and NeWS, be all that simple?  ...

An observation occurred to me at Usenix:  the problem with the people who
talk about bringing SysV and BSD together is that they don't want to narrow
the gap between the two, they want to fill it in.
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry