Disturbing News re. DEC and UNIX

[Sebastian Schmitz]

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Keywords: System V, DEC, UNIX

Dear Friends,

please forgive the numerous cross postings, but I have heard a
bit of news here in Germany, that is disturbing.

The news is, that DEC will in future support System V on its
VAX products.

This is all it said. Now the questions. Hopefully one of you
out there (you listening, Armando ??) could tell me (us)
more...

1- Does this mean that DEC will not base its future Ultrix
   releases on BSD 4.n, as it has done in the past ?

2- Is this something to do with the fact that Bell are
   changing their "porting base" to 3B2 processors and DEC has to
   therefore take over the responsibility of releases for VAX ?

2.5 (as related with above) Will a yes answer to the above mean
    that there will be a System V based Ultrix and a BSD based one ?
    ( I.e. two Ultrices instead of one ?)

3- Will DEC "do away" with BSD completely ? I.e. will the next
   Ultrix (1.3 or 2.0) be a System V based kernel, and all
   utilities change (and all those networks go away???) ?

4- Or will the System V support be on a level similar to Mt.
   Xinu's MORE/bsd, which provides a compatibility library
   only ?

5;-) Will Bell take over the world ?

Please understand: I have this from an official source (albeit
in German) and I am getting worried. Please reply either to the
net or to me and I will summarise.

Thanks,
Snoops
(Anxiety INC.)
-- 
  Love,
  Sebastian (Snoopy)

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