att & osf

[Jim Frost]

In article <3396 at vpk4.UUCP> scott at attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie) writes:
|In article <1988Aug2.171126.17906 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|> >... show me another vendor which has worked as hard   
|> >to provide a truly hardware independent operating system to allow customers
|> >to feely decide what hardware they need to solve their problems...
|> 
|> Provided, of course, that they end up choosing AT&T hardware.
|
|System V Unix runs on a variety of equipment which is not manufactured with
|or by AT&T. Your arguement that SYSV or SYSV-compatible operating systems only
|run on AT&T equipment is simply wrong.

True, true.  In fact, having dealt with both the 3b2 and 3b5 computers
from AT&T, I'd say it doesn't even run particularly well on AT&T
hardware.  Seems to work nicely elsewhere, though.

(Hmm, that 3b5 is making a wonderful doorstop...)

jim frost
madd at bu-it.bu.edu