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From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: att & osf
Message-ID: <24524@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 88 18:32:55 GMT
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In article <882@sfmin.UUCP> rye@sfmin.UUCP (R.Schwark) writes:
|AT&T has been supporting POSIX and will continue to
|support POSIX.  A Public standard is good for all of us.  Particularly
|in that it makes other vendors more comfortable in being in the
|UNIX System market.  Remember, we're not just fighting for shares
|of the UNIX System market, we're trying to make the whole market
|*bigger*.

This is so, and was stressed by the AT&T people I talked to today, as
well as a good many other vendors who are trying to push their
products in the POSIX direction.  In addition, AT&T is obviously
following emerging standards in the workstation field (ie X windows
support in addition to Open Look)... even though their symbol is the
death star, they're not all bad guys.

And now I have my very own AT&T pen complete with its own death star
emblem.  It's been a good day ;-).

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu