Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!princeton!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!benoni From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: AT&T/Sun merged UNIX Message-ID: <1684@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 88 06:29:10 GMT References: <11722@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Feb16.182913.226@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA Lines: 20 In article <1988Feb16.182913.226@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > 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. An observation occurred to me last night :) the problem with the people that are know griping the most about AT&T and Sun bring SysV and BSD together are the people that would have sold you their very own closed systems yesterday. :^) (Did you also notice that their the companies that don't have a large marketshare in the workstation market OR they are losing market share REAL fast!!) Like DEC and Apollo...(Funny DEC and Apollo didn't complain when Mr. Joy gave them BSD 4.[23]... :^) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Opinions expressed are my own. No one else would have them. :)