dhare%integral@Sun.COM (Dwight Hare) (09/22/88)
In article <3705@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mouser@portia.stanford.edu (Michael Wang) writes: >AT&T bought a majority stake in Sun >Microsystems to help them merge the different UNIX together and create one >and only one industry standard. Sun has had previous experience in this >since their Sun OS is a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V Release 3. So far so >good. Not quite. AT&T has not bought a majority stake in Sun. AT&T can buy up to 20% of Sun over several years and cannot exceed that unless someone else does. Also, the current SunOS is not a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V Release 3. SunOS was derived from BSD 4.2 with lots of 4.3 stuff migrated in. There is a System V compatibility package and set of binaries, but SunOS is by no means a merge with SVR3. This, of course, has nothing to do with the Mac, but I couldn't let such misinformation go uncorrected.