Dual Universes

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <14673 at ulysses.att.com> andys at ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>In article <richard.672629724 at fafnir.la.locus.com> richard at locus.com (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
>|>Let's merge BSD and SysV now, resolve the conflicts, then start over
>|>inventing new features to create the next generation of splitting.
>|>At least that split will have started from just one place.
>Pardon my naivete, but isn't that what SVr4 is supposed to do?

Yes, but not everybody is cooperating.
OSF/1, AIX, A/UX, and 4.4BSD all appear to be continuing to evolve
in their own separate ways.