[net.micro] "DEC Taps Software House To Adapt UNIX-Like OS"

jm@tekig.UUCP (Jeff Mizener) (02/23/84)

From Electronic News, 2/20/84:

	DEC, in a move to add limites IBM PC software capability
	to its personal computers, has signed a Cambridge, MA, 
	software developer to put its Unix-like operating system
	on the Pro-300 series, Rainbow 100, and Micro-11 computers.

	VentureCom Inc., which developed Verix, a System III based
	software [sic] available for the IBM PC and DEC Pro-300
	Series, will supply the software to DEC for use on the three
	low end systems.  Officials of both firms declined to reveal
	the value of the agreement.

	Paraphrased:

	...DEC will shelve its Pro-V7M, a Unix-like OS for the Pro-
	300 series (YAU-LOS: Yet Another Unix-Like OS) which was 
	announced, but never shipped.  V7M11 (yau-los for the pdp-11)
	will continue to be offered.

	...Venix for the Pro-300 will be available in May from
	DEC for ~$800.  Versions for the Rainbow and Micro-11 will
	be ready "sometime in the fall" (...the check is in the mail...).


Offered Without Comment.

	Jeff Mizener
	Tektronix Inc., IG/ADG
	Beaverton, OR

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sysred@psuvax.UUCP (Ralph Droms) (02/24/84)

Is YAU-LOS pronounced "you-lose"??

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