Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!madd
From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: att & osf
Message-ID: <24309@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 Aug 88 18:38:36 GMT
References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug2.171126.17906@utzoo.uucp> <3396@vpk4.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
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Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <3396@vpk4.UUCP> scott@attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) writes:
|In article <1988Aug2.171126.17906@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> >... show me another vendor which has worked as hard   
|> >to provide a truly hardware independent operating system to allow customers
|> >to feely decide what hardware they need to solve their problems...
|> 
|> Provided, of course, that they end up choosing AT&T hardware.
|
|System V Unix runs on a variety of equipment which is not manufactured with
|or by AT&T. Your arguement that SYSV or SYSV-compatible operating systems only
|run on AT&T equipment is simply wrong.

True, true.  In fact, having dealt with both the 3b2 and 3b5 computers
from AT&T, I'd say it doesn't even run particularly well on AT&T
hardware.  Seems to work nicely elsewhere, though.

(Hmm, that 3b5 is making a wonderful doorstop...)

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu