[net.unix-wizards] DEC supports VAX Unix

baskett (01/28/83)

Digital announced yesterday its plans to support Berkeley Unix 4.2 as a
standard operating system for the VAX computer family.  Details later.

aps (02/01/83)

DEC actually announced that it will be selling and supporting
a native VAX UNIX product, based on Berkeley's 4.1BSD, initially.

We hope to make some of the features from System III/IV available
in our release that people seem to feel that they like/need (like
the neat screen editor from System IV called vi!).

We hope to move to the 4.2 distribution after it has stabilized.

Note that these will be binary licenses and that support will probably
come in the form that it currently does for other DEC supported operating
systems (local office support personnel, telephone support, backed
by a corporate support group, etc).

	aps.