Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!nud!df
From: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Bell Tech Pricing
Message-ID: <1192@nud.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 23:06:52 GMT
References: <294@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> <236@belltec.UUCP> <6475@bcsaic.UUCP> <1850@van-bc.UUCP> <193@cbw1.UUCP>
Reply-To: df@nud.UUCP (Dale Farnsworth)
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Brian Cuthie (brian@cbw1.UMD.EDU) writes:
> 
> It seems like the only issue here is how people define "complete."  I have
> to wonder how long this argument can go on.  Personally I prefer to think
> of "complete" as being "everything."  Obviously Bell-Tech and their
> supporters think complete has a different definition.   I don't know that
> there is any point in wasting 10k/day in net bandwidth in obscured arguments
> over the definition of complete.

Bell Technologies includes "everything" that is included in
AT&T's System V Release 3.

System V Release 3 not include nroff/troff or on-line man pages.
It does have an on-line help facility and many other nice features.

Bell Tech provides "complete" System V Release 3.  If, by your definition,
that is not "complete" UNIX, then AT&T should be flamed, not Bell Technologies.

-Dale

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