SCO doesn't sell UNIX (V.4 -- the standardizer)

[Greg A. Woods]

In article <1990Dec5.005522.27397 at pegasus.com> richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
> It appears that V.4 will be go a long way to creating a more unified Unix.
> It introduces many changes, but it has a lot of momentum.

Though I've never had a problem with the multipicity of UNIX variants
(writing modern, portable, applications is easy, just so long as you
don't restrict yourself to some silly subset, such as V7), I also feel
SysVr4 will bring together (unify) UNIX users.  As for changes,
progress is impossible without change.

> And because it takes a great deal of work to bring up a new port the
> first round or two of releases will probably be fairly generic, the
> vendors not having enough time to mix in their own pet features.

>From what I've seen, SysVr4 will significantly reduces the amount of
effort required to port it to new architectures.  Regardless, I do
hope it takes some vendors a great deal of time (hopefully infinity)
to introduce their own pet features.  SysVr4 is "standard"; let's
leave it that way!  (I.e. if SCO do introduce SysVr4, and it includes
"custom", I'll puke!)
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