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From: trb@haddock.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,talk.rumors,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Interactive (was uport death rumors)
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Date: 11 Mar 89 16:21:50 GMT
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Sorry to William Curtiss and you all for my snapping at him here - I
read his note in talk.rumors (which doesn't get all the 386 netnews),
and I hadn't been reading comp.unix.microport.  His grouping ISC in
with failing Microport seemed out of context in talk.rumors, whereas
both companies are commonly discussed in comp.unix.microport.  In that
sense, other folks might have been similarly confused in a similar
context.

In article <21589@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> cc1@cs.ucla.edu (Max Kislik) writes:
> What is 386/ix ?  Is it the new AIX from Locus or is it the other 386
> UNIXl-like OS made by this other Santa Monica software developer whose
> name I can't recall.

386/ix is the UNIXl-like OS made by the other Santa Monica software
developer whose name you can't recall.  It is derived from the 386
UNIX reference port, which the other company produced for AT&T - the
reference port that is at the base of all AT&T Sys Vr3 386 UNIX
systems.

	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Cambridge, MA   +1 617 661 7474