Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!ditto
From: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: COMDEX Announcements
Summary: Unix:  Don't worry, be happy
Keywords: unix
Message-ID: <5291@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 03:22:56 GMT
References: <13541@oberon.USC.EDU> <7718@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 27

In article <7718@well.UUCP> ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>In article <13541@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>: [ a bunch of CBM announcements at COMDEX ]
>:TITLE: AMIX(TM)- UNIX(tm) System V Compatible for Amiga(r) 2500UX
>: [ ... ]
>	Well, if you're going to include 'yacc', then where's 'lex'?  Or is
>'yacc' really 'bison'?

Don't worry -- it's all there.  AT&T "unbundles" Unix now, splitting it
into various optional parts, but we're "un-unbundling" it so that you
basically get everything that most people think of as Unix.  At the
moment that doesn't include BSD stuff but that should change shortly.

>	Where's 'troff' and 'nroff'?  I thought 'tbl' and 'eqn' were macro
>packages for the *roff programs.

Somehow a line got deleted in the description Marco posted -- I assume
it was missing on Bix as well, but the sheets at COMDEX were OK.  nroff
and device independent troff will be included.  tbl and eqn are
specialized preprocessors (for tables and equations) for *roff.
-- 
					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@kenobi.cts.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.		ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com