snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) (12/17/85)
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Keywords: System V, DEC, UNIX
Dear Friends,
please forgive the numerous cross postings, but I have heard a
bit of news here in Germany, that is disturbing.
The news is, that DEC will in future support System V on its
VAX products.
This is all it said. Now the questions. Hopefully one of you
out there (you listening, Armando ??) could tell me (us)
more...
1- Does this mean that DEC will not base its future Ultrix
releases on BSD 4.n, as it has done in the past ?
2- Is this something to do with the fact that Bell are
changing their "porting base" to 3B2 processors and DEC has to
therefore take over the responsibility of releases for VAX ?
2.5 (as related with above) Will a yes answer to the above mean
that there will be a System V based Ultrix and a BSD based one ?
( I.e. two Ultrices instead of one ?)
3- Will DEC "do away" with BSD completely ? I.e. will the next
Ultrix (1.3 or 2.0) be a System V based kernel, and all
utilities change (and all those networks go away???) ?
4- Or will the System V support be on a level similar to Mt.
Xinu's MORE/bsd, which provides a compatibility library
only ?
5;-) Will Bell take over the world ?
Please understand: I have this from an official source (albeit
in German) and I am getting worried. Please reply either to the
net or to me and I will summarise.
Thanks,
Snoops
(Anxiety INC.)
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Love,
Sebastian (Snoopy)
"You haven't done it, till you've done it with pointers"
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