mikea@utoday.UUCP (Mike Azzara) (06/09/88)
UNIX TODAY! SPEAKS (AGAIN) The Open Software Foundation is, for better or worse, now part of the UNIX landscape. But in all the hoopla surrounding its birth, the seven parents forgot one essential: a name. OSF will produce a new operating system based on IBM's AIX, but the founders forgot to tell us what they plan to call the result of their efforts. Fully realizing how busy the OSF is (finding a new home, getting the electricity and phones hooked up, collecting menus from nearby take-out restaurants), we, as the new kids on the block, have decided to give the Foundation a helping hand. But since we're having our own problems getting settled (new, nightmarish telephones that ring for no reason; offices that evoke one editor's memories of his time in solitary confinement; and you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find good Chinese food in Manhasset), we could use some help. Send us your suggestions. (...uunet!utoday!letter) We'll select the best and print them in our first issue. Time is running out. Do it today. Send pizza.
sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan) (06/10/88)
In article <11@utoday.UUCP> mikea@utoday.UUCP (Mike Azzara) writes: > >UNIX TODAY! SPEAKS (AGAIN) >The Open Software Foundation is, for better or worse, now part of the UNIX >landscape. But in all the hoopla surrounding its birth, the seven >parents forgot one essential: a name. OSF will produce a new operating >system based on IBM's AIX, but the founders forgot to tell us what they >plan to call the result of their efforts. May I suggest 3OS/4! Fred Sullivan SUNY at Binghamton Dept. Math. Sciences Binghamton, NY 13903 sullivan@marge.math.binghamton.edu First you make a roux!