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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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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:25:05 GMT
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- guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- |IBM doesn't seem to be committed to the OSF/1 kernel on the
- |POWER architecture, although their latest AIX for the PeeCee and 390
- |architectures are, I think, OSF/1-based.
- [...]
-
- |Err, to which "camps" are you referring? OSF/1 vs. SVR4? "BSD"
- |(whatever *that* means) vs. SVR4?
-
- Darned if I know: my camp seems to be full of Huns, the occasional
- Roman legionaire, lots of passing Franks and I've seen at least one
- chap painted blue all over (must be british).
-
- Seriously, though, the complexity of corporate maneovering is such
- that defining clear and obvious camps is a losing effort. They really
- only mean anything when you make them inclusive.
- If I had to do definitions, I'd specify corporate names at perticular
- dates. Eg, ``DEC-IBM-HP as of XXX 1992''. Camps are intended to be
- more an ``emotional stance'' term
-
- --dave
- ps: thanks for the update on IBM: I'd seen the pc OSF announcements
- and assumed the RS would be along when they could afford to do
- the work.
-
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