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From: rdp@pbseps.UUCP (Richard Perlman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Sequent Technical info?
Message-ID: <478@pbseps.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 19:45:23 GMT
References: <6996@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rdp@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman)
Organization: Pacific Bell Separations, San Francisco, CA
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In article <6996@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>Well, I called up the local Sequent office...
>When I asked about 4.3 BSD compatibility, the salesperson...
>...talked about a new operating system available [called] RSN that
>would provide "POSIX compatibility"...
>
>Does anybody know precisely what this "new" software is consitituted of?

I think the new OS is to be called PSN.  It will be AT&T Sys5.3
based and is not supposed to be a dual universe system.  I
believe it will support most Berkeley extensions.

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