Post-UNIX UNIX (Re: AT&T Joining OSF)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1271 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Any way of dragging research UNIX out of AT&T? It's not doing us
>much good in there.

What?!?  You dare to suggest that it could somehow be better than System V?!?
Heresy!!!  :-) :-)

More seriously, the System V people have put a lot of effort into their
One Standard Unix campaign, and the last thing they want is competition
from within AT&T itself.  There has been a little bit of distribution of
research Unix to selected universities, but it seems unlikely that there
will be any more general release.  Ideas, and bits and pieces of software
from it, will filter over into System V (sometimes in radically-mutated
forms, as witness DMR streams vs. System V Streams), but that's about it.
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