lim ((n -> infinity) UNIX System V Release n) == Multics ?

[William G. Hutchison]

In article <141 at icarus.kulcs.uucp>, dannyb at kulcs.uucp (Danny Backx) writes:
> In article <422 at ubbpc.UUCP> wgh at ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison) writes:
> > (1) The market might reject Sys V Release 4 as too bulky (not likely, but
> >     possible: this might move people to OSF/AIX),
> I honestly wonder: why do you think anything a committee (e.g. OSF) comes up
> with is going to be less bulky ?
>   -- Danny Backx  E-mail: dannyb at kulcs.UUCP, dannyb at blekul60.BITNET

No, I do not believe that at all.
  However, since AIX is several years away, it might not grow as big as
Sys V rel 4 in the same period.  So some misguided souls might perceive AIX
as simpler around 1990-1992.

#define inews (void*)0
#define inews (void*)0
#define inews (void*)0
-- 
Bill Hutchison, DP Consultant	rutgers!liberty!burdvax!ubbpc!wgh
Unisys UNIX Portation Center	"What one fool can do, another can!"
P.O. Box 500, M.S. B121		Ancient Simian Proverb, quoted by
Blue Bell, PA 19424		Sylvanus P. Thompson, in _Calculus Made Easy_