AT&T doesn't own Sun (Re: IBM's NeXT User Interface)

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From: Dwight Hare
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 16:38

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In article <3705@Portia.Stanford.EDU> mouser@portia.stanford.edu (Michael
Wang) writes:

>AT&T bought a majority stake in Sun 
>Microsystems to help them merge the different UNIX together and create one 
>and only one industry standard.  Sun has had previous experience in this 
>since their Sun OS is a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V Release 3.  So far so 
>good.

Not quite.  AT&T has not bought a majority stake in Sun.  AT&T can buy up to
20% of Sun over several years and cannot exceed that unless someone else
does.  Also, the current SunOS is not a merge of BSD 4.3 and System V
Release 3.  SunOS was derived from BSD 4.2 with lots of 4.3 stuff migrated
in.  There is a System V compatibility package and set of binaries, but
SunOS is by no means a merge with SVR3.

This, of course, has nothing to do with the Mac, but I couldn't let such
misinformation go uncorrected.

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From: dhare%integral@Sun.COM (Dwight Hare)
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Subject: AT&T doesn't own Sun (Re: IBM's NeXT User Interface)
Keywords: UNIX, AT&T, Sun
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Date: 22 Sep 88 16:38:49 GMT
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