Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!cmcl2!beta!hwe
From: hwe@beta.UUCP (Skip Egdorf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What does SVR3 have that SVR2 doesn't?
Message-ID: <16603@beta.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 19:44:34 GMT
References: <1062@maynard.BSW.COM> <10161@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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Summary: the bad with the good

> >The question I'm really trying to answer is, given a choice
> >between SVR2 (for perhaps less money) and SVR3, why should I choose SVR3?
> 1. RFS
> 2. STREAMS
> 3. Shared Libraries
> 4. Better signal handling
>     
>     Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ


Let us not forget the lawyers:

5. A clause in the license that lets AT&T decide to pull your product
   whenever THEY decide that you are not really selling SVR3.

					Skip Egdorf
					hwe@lanl.gov