Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix

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From: Paul Vixie
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 06:37

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In article <MEISSNER.90Sep3231422@osf.osf.org>,
meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes...
# I happen to think that System V integration was real low priority on
# Ultrix.  All you have to do is look at how they botched curses
# (requiring you to change the source to include cursesX.h instead of
# curses.h).  Sun did a much better job of mixing the two.

As far as that goes, HP did an even better job than Sun.  And Pyramid
did a better job that ANYBODY.  But why does anybody care about System V?

(Not speaking for DEC -- we seem to care about System V...)
--
Paul Vixie
DEC Western Research Lab	<vixie@wrl.dec.com>
Palo Alto, California		...!decwrl!vixie

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