Dual Port OS Questions (Newcomer!)

[Carl S. Gutekunst]

>Speaking of which, what's the latest information about future OS
>versions on Pyramids.  Which Unix will it be?  Is it going to be
>AT&T's SysV R4 and nothing else?  

Unofficial observations from the trenches:

SVR4 is well along, of course; AT&T sponsored a booth at the November UNIX
Expo where Pyramid and a half-dozen or so other companies demonstrated SVR4
on their machines. Since Pyramid's whole strategy is based on *commercial*
standards, and SVR4 will be *the* UNIX of the 90's, you will see SVR4 as the
focus of future development at Pyramid. Rather than, say, Mach, or 4.4BSD.

OSx will be around for a long time, though. Besides all the installed base
that will need upgrades and support, it will take a while for all the options
we've added to OSx to be ported to SVR4. Since many of us old-timers under-
stand OSx better, sometimes we'll also develop something for OSx first, and
SVR4 later. (This could also depend on customer demand.) And maybe some SVR4
features will be snuck into OSx as well.

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