IBM's influence on OSF (Re: AT&T Joining OSF)

[Henry Spencer]

In article <11410007 at eecs.nwu.edu> naim at eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) writes:
>Why are VMS sources so significantly bigger than UNIX sources ? ...

Because Unix was written (originally) by a handful of competent people.

Also, said competent people were not under any compulsion to meet a formal
spec saying the system had to be all things to all users, so they didn't
need and didn't implement a lot of the obscure sludge that VMS has.
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