motives for AT&T, etc (was re: att & osf)

[Chris Torek]

>In article <12755 at mimsy.UUCP> I wrote
>>... Unix may win out over a technically superior O/S for a particular
>>application simply because most of the needed software already exists.

In article <766 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) answers:
>Wow, I've never heard *that* about UNIX before :-).

Simply because there *are* no superiour [what spelling consistency?]
O/Ses.  (Yet.)

   :-)

>One of the largest complaints about UNIX is that application
>software is *not* available.  We've got compilers but not (say)
>grocery store accounting systems, and there are many more of
>"them" then there are of "us".

I was thinking more along the lines of data gathering and analysis
for, say, an insect neurology lab.  (Much of this tends to run under
real-time constraints; it might in fact be cheaper to buy an O/S with
RT data gathering already supported than to hack the V7 scheduler.)
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