O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?

[Stan Brown]

> 
> In article <11006 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
> 
> >  An ABI is not for a vendor, it's for a CPU type. There will be one for
> >SPARC, 386, 68020, and hopefully for VAXen. These are all markets in
> >which there are either multiple hardware or software vendors. ABI
> >describes how things call the O/S, and you don't need to "get one," you
> >just buy the standard and write to it.
> 
> This is yet another example of the blind speculation that seems to
> be rampant throughout this topic. Getting an ABI is not as simple
> as you state. DEC cannot get an ABI for the VAX. AT&T wouldn't allow
> it.  Do we need any more reason to rebel and form OSF? How tight

	Exactly what do you base this statement on ?


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