Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!dftsrv!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!pdn!reggie From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: free versions of complex software (Re: So let's talk about FSF) Message-ID: <4602@pdn.UUCP> Date: 14 Oct 88 12:42:29 GMT References: <780@proxftl.UUCP> <600@sering.cwi.nl> <2133@stpstn.UUCP> <492@optilink.UUCP> <485@genesis.ATT.COM> Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach) Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo FL Lines: 22 In article <485@genesis.ATT.COM> andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes: >I don't know what V8 (or V9 for that matter) is based upon, because most >of Bell Laboratories does not use it....... The important features of the >research versions find there way into new releases of System V. For >example, STREAMS was a V8 feature that has now been incorporated into >System V Release 3. You still benefit from what the research folks are >doing. Yes, we do. But quite often the System V implementation of the research features leave much to be desired. Not only that the basic system itself has many differences which are far too warty. -- George W. Leach Paradyne Corporation ..!uunet!pdn!reggie Mail stop LF-207 Phone: (813) 530-2376 P.O. Box 2826 Largo, FL USA 34649-2826