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Submitted-by: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)

In article <17jq00INN7ei@ftp.UU.NET>, jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff) writes:
> Submitted-by: jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff)
> 
> An industry colleague recalls seeing a press release that stated that the
> "competing UNIX standards have merged".  I recall a notice that suggested
> that SVID is supported by both OSF and UI.  Of course, neither of us can
> locate the articles in which we think these statements occurred :-)
> Can anyone shed any light on this, either by confirming or refuting these
> statements, or by identifying the press release/article in which they
> appeared?

I will not confirm/deny/comment on anything to do with "Unix wars" but what
may help you are the facts that a) OSF/1 1.0 supported SVID 2 and OSF/1 1.1
supports SVID 3 and b) USL has just announced that System V will support OSFs
AES (Application Environement Specification). Thus the same programming
environment will exist on either system regardless of whether you developed to
SVID or AES.  OSF and UI/USL have always worked together anyway to ensure
that these two specifications are not contradictory, this is just another
step in the co-operation.

Simon.
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Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 17