Future at Berzerkeley

[Chuck Karish]

In article <3095 at stpstn.UUCP> aad at stepstsone.com wrote:
>In article <4572 at pt.cs.cmu.edu> jps at cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman) writes:
>>a long time, but SysV will always be more stable.
>Let's see:  svr1,svr2,svr3,svr3.2,svr4...  Seems like they come out with
>versions a lot more often.

	Yes, but it's a stable development environment because AT&T
	specifies what backward compatibility they'll provide in new
	versions.  This may be carried a bit too far, to the extent
	that they're reluctant to fix misfeatures for fear of breaking
	customers' work-arounds.

	Any developer who's happy with the old functionality can
	ship products for the newer version of the OS without having
	to port to it.

	Chuck Karish	hplabs!hpda!mindcrf!karish	(415) 493-7277
			karish at forel.stanford.edu