sh vs. sh5 in ultrix

[Michael Meissner]

In article <1990Sep4.063729.27822 at wrl.dec.com> vixie at wrl.dec.com (Paul
Vixie) writes:

| In article <MEISSNER.90Sep3231422 at osf.osf.org>,
| meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes...
| # I happen to think that System V integration was real low priority on
| # Ultrix.  All you have to do is look at how they botched curses
| # (requiring you to change the source to include cursesX.h instead of
| # curses.h).  Sun did a much better job of mixing the two.
| 
| As far as that goes, HP did an even better job than Sun.  And Pyramid
| did a better job that ANYBODY.  But why does anybody care about System V?
| 
| (Not speaking for DEC -- we seem to care about System V...)

Because each of the various UNIX camps have good things to offer (such
as the V.2 /bin/sh and curses in the System V case).

IMHO, I think Pyramid's solution (separate att/ucb universes) is the
wrong solution.  I want a merged system, not two systems under the
same roof......
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