Splinter Unix?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Fri May 20 21:05:02 AEST 1988


In article <10650027 at hpisod2.HP.COM> decot at hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>What leads you to believe that "just a small incompatible tweak" would be
>what OSF will be developing?

Because it is constrained by NBS POSIX FIPS compatibility to remain
mostly like UNIX (thus the "small tweak") and is not constrained by
the SVID (thus "incompatible").

I may shift to Plan 9, if it ever becomes available.  UNIX seems to
have gotten stuck once it became commercially successful.



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