Will Ultrix...

[Michael Meissner]

In article <MORSE.91Feb15085353 at quark.mpr.ca> morse at quark.mpr.ca
(Daryl Morse) writes:

| In the future, Ultrix will *not* be based on BSD. DEC is an active
| member of the OSF and has publicly announced that at some time in the
| future, Ultrix will be based OSF/1 (ie. Mach kernel + lots of other
| functionality). While I'm not familiar with BSD, I have read quite a
| few papers on Mach. I would be surprised if BSD came anywhere near the
| level of innovation of Mach (ie. threads, SMP, IPC, memory management,
| etc.)

Though of course, OSF/1 is based on BSD (reno and tahoe) in addition
to Mach, System V.2, X3PG, AIX, etc......
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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?