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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: Sidebar re BSD (in ``Novell to buy USL'')
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- References: <62406@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM> <Bzo5zH.B6y@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec23.161548.19905@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:31:51 GMT
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- rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
- |USL is EXTREMELY important in the UNIX world as it is the only
- |active major development center for UNIX source code. Berkeley
- |(UC Berkeley) was also active in this field, but they are in the
- |process of shutting down. USL supplies the source code base for
- |most current versions of *IX. Those that were based on the Berkeley
- |code (which included a lot of USL code, BTW) are converting over to
- |the USL code, for the most part. Most obvious in that category is
- |Sun.
-
- I keep hearing this quoted, but it ain't really true: it's still a
- horse-race. Sun is heading for SysV, but IBM is headed the other way.
- DEC is staying berklazoid, but on the OSF/1 kernel, like IBM.
- Variuous other peope are just talking about moving to one camp or the
- other.
- SysV has a clear lead in the small (PC-based) commercial systems,
- plus some acceptability for mainframers, but is still very far down
- the learning curve in the workstation market. And most of that has
- to do with AT&T's allocation of effort, not technical issues.
-
- --dave (I'm not religious) c-b
-
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