Motorola gets AT&T OK on 68000 port of UN*X System V

[Ian F. Darwin]

	From: mbs at ecsvax.UUCP
	Subject: Re: Motorola gets AT&T OK on 68000 port of UN*X System V

	I would like to note that at least one other corporation (Empirical Research
	Group) already has a System V port on the 68000. I believe the port was done
	by UniSoft, but I am not sure.....

UniSoft has had System III and System V for ages, and there are
over fifty companies in the 68000 game with UniSoft UNIX ports.
On the other hand, the Motorola port is ``official'' (at least
to the marketing hypes at AT&T...). Time will tell which of the
two competing 68000 ports will prosper (if either): the one
that got there first, and made the 68000 a widely-used UNIX engine,
or the one that came along after from the same folks who brought
you the hardware.

Lest we forget, there is also XENIX for the 68000 and a few
in-house ports by particular vendors (several of them originally
UniSoft). Several UNIX-like systems are also available for the 68000.
-- 
Ian F. Darwin, Toronto  uucp: utcsstat!ian