Splinter Unix?

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <581 at tapa.UUCP> larry at .UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
| Please don't forget that DEC was eliminated from an ongoing Air Force bid of
| some $970mil (If I recall correctly).  Being barred from almost a Billion
| dollars worth of business is sure going to make the likes of IBM, DEC and HP
| take notice.
| 	Larry
| 	ihnp4!tapa!larry

I'm missing something. Why was DEC barred? With BSD4.3, SysVR2 (and R3 I
think) and Ultrix, were they dropped for some reason related to UNIX, or
did they bid a UNIX contract with VMS?
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