O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T?

[Henry Spencer]

>    AT&T was no threat because it was never a viable competitor in the 
>    systems business.
> 
> That seems inconsistent.  An awful lot of vendors have been bending
> over backwards for several years in order to be able to advertise
> their conformity with SysVRelN...

There is no inconsistency at all; SVRn was a de-facto software standard,
not a computer, runnable software for it, or a complete system.  The
vendors kept up with it for the same reason that they keep up with other
standards.  It had nothing to do with AT&T's feeble attempts to sell
computers.
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