motives for AT&T, etc (was re: att & osf)

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <12755 at mimsy.UUCP>, chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

>       Unix may win out over a technically superior O/S for a particular
>       application simply because most of the needed software already
>       exists.

Wow, I've never heard *that* about UNIX before :-).

One of the largest complaints about UNIX is that application
software is *not* available.  We've got compilers but not (say)
grocery store accounting systems, and there are many more of
"them" then there are of "us".

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