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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: att & osf
Message-ID: <12118@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 00:28:44 GMT
References: <4964@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <3395@vpk4.UUCP> <1988Aug2.171126.17906@utzoo.uucp> <3396@vpk4.UUCP> <249@quintus.UUCP> <1275@sfmag.UUCP> <258@quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <258@quintus.UUCP> by ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe):
+---------------
| To summarize:  the SVID is good news for applications developers.  It says
| quite clearly what can't be DELETED in a hurry.  But it is nevertheless the
| case that AT&T _could_ ADD enormous chunks to the SVID without warning (for
| example, streams) which is _not_ good news for UNIX vendors, and that was
| Henry Spencer's original point.
+---------------

A few years ago, people were bitching about the System V standard because it
didn't include networking.  Now they're bitching because there's a mechanism
for adding such missing pieces?!

A little less heat, please, and a little more light.  Not to mention just a
bit more so-called "common" sense.

++Brandon
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