Unix optimized for SPARC?

[Gary Allen]

In article <2535 at gumby.mips.COM> len at gumby.UUCP (Len Lattanzi) writes:
>In article <4741 at vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett at steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>:In article <3cf8d4d5.d8e9 at apollo.uucp> gallen at diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen) writes:
>:|>But that is an old topic. The new one is that OSF plans to
>:|>remove all of the AT&T code			 	eventually.
>:|
>:|Not according to any statement made by anyone at OSF. 
>:
>:I read this in one of the trade journals last week. (Can't find the issue).
>:But someone from IBM announced that their eventual plans were to
>:remove all of the AT&T code.
>:
>:I apologize for not having the reference. 
>:-- 
>:	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett at ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett at steinmetz.UUCP>
>:				uunet!steinmetz!barnett
>
>See Computer Systems News 6/27/88 "OSF Plans Sunset for AT&T Code"
>
>Ira Goldstein, temporary director of research for OSF and formerly
>manager of R&D for technical systems at HP, made the announcement.
>-- 
> Len Lattanzi	(len at mips.com)	<{ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!len>
> Synthesis Software Solutions, Inc.
> 292 Commercial Street, Sunnyvale, CA 94086			408-991-0367

Touche. I couldn't find that particular mag in the library, but I'll accept
what you say. However, I'll restate what was in my follow-up. Sources close
to OSF (you know who you are) were asked repeatedly about this subject. The
answer was always that the legal problems were practically insurmountable.
Thus, it would be practically impossible to avoid royalties to AT&T. Given
that, its hard to see what benefit there would be in replacing code with
other code that does the same thing. Improving, polishing, optimizing, and
just plain hacking may well be in the picture but replacing AT&T code just
because it is that seems a little silly if they have to pay for it anyway.

Gary Allen
Aplool Computer
Chelmsford, MA
{decvax,yale,umix}!apollo!gallen

Oh yeah, you know that stuff about how this doesn't represent the opinion of
anybody that really counts. I wasn't a math major anyway.