guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) (01/27/88)
(Redirecting to comp.unix.wizards; at this point it has far more to do with UNIX than C++.) > >I specifically asked Bill Joy about the merging of incompatible Unix > >features at the Sun Convention, and he stated that all the design > >specification work had already been done. Specifically, Sockets are > >to be replaced by Streams, and BSD job control is to be cleaned up. > > While I agree with these two cases, I sure hope that whatever is > done will track the POSIX FIPS (and ANSI C) specs. Otherwise we > really won't care what the system is like, we won't be buying any. I don't know why people fear that the merged UNIX would *not* do either of those. For instance, a lot of the cleanup of BSD job control will probably be adoption of POSIX job control.... (Disclaimer: I do not speak officially here for AT&T nor for Sun.) Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com