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Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 1990 15:26
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In article <1990Sep4.063729.27822@wrl.dec.com> vixie@wrl.dec.com (Paul
Vixie) writes:

| 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...)

Because each of the various UNIX camps have good things to offer (such
as the V.2 /bin/sh and curses in the System V case).

IMHO, I think Pyramid's solution (separate att/ucb universes) is the
wrong solution.  I want a merged system, not two systems under the
same roof......
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
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Subject: Re: sh vs. sh5 in ultrix
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