AT&T 7300 C compiler
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sun Apr 14 10:33:07 AEST 1985
> > "System V: consider it a moving target."
>
> Would you prefer that it NOT evolve?
> Oh, I forgot, there hasn't been anything worthwhile since 1978.
Well, not very much, anyway... :-)
More seriously, my original comment was motivated by amusement (and
some disgust) at AT&T simultaneously pushing System V as a "standard"
and continuing to change it in incompatible ways. Clearly, what AT&T
really wants is that everyone should consider AT&T's *latest* offering
(whatever that happens to be at any given time) to be "the standard",
so that AT&T isn't hampered by having to conform to standards it doesn't
set, and everybody else is. In this context, it obviously makes sense
for AT&T to (a) push "System V" (whatever it is this week) as "standard",
and (b) keep changing the standard.
"Standardize software: buy it from AT&T."
--
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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