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- Submitted-by: Kevin.N.Broekhoven@QueensU.CA
-
- I am writing a small article which touches on recent evolution in Unix
- standards, but can't seem to find some information that it would be nice to
- include. I would appreciate it if some kind soul who is up on all of this
- could please shed a little light on this for me.
-
- Questions:
-
- 1.AT&T, Sun and Microsoft banded together in the late 80's to create System V.4
- as the merge of the System V.3, SunOS, and Xenix strains of Unix.
- What was the duration of the software development phase, and what were the
- release dates of System V.4 on each significant platform?
-
- 2.Similarly, OSF/1 is "currently under development" but is having some problems
- getting off the ground. I believe IBM has pulled out of the effort to
- develop the operating system, in favour of AIX which works. What are the
- dates of: 1.the formation of OSF
- 2.the development phase of the OSF/1 operating system
- (is it still under development, or has it been abandoned
- completely after the pull out by Big Blue?)
- What are the Unix roots of the OSF/1 operating system? i.e. was it
- developed from System V.2, or Mach from Carnegie Mellon U?
-
- 3.What is the date of the formation of UI (Unix International)?
-
- 4.What are the Unix roots of AIX? i.e. was it developed from System V.2 or
- Mach? What are its advantages and disadvantages relative to other
- strains of Unix?
-
- 3.What are the Unix roots of Mach? Why did Carnagie Melon develop it? What
- are its advantages and disadvantages relative to other strains of Unix?
- (i.e. why did Next (and possibly IBM?) choose Mach over BSD or some
- other flavour of Unix?)
-
- 4.Is there a competition between System V.4 and OSF/1, in the sense that one
- will be chosen as the ANSI standard Unix, or are they both sufficiently
- conformant to current ANSI/POSIX standards, that this is not an issue:
- that the competition is strictly in the marketplace?
-
- I realise this is a lot to ask, but I can't find this information in any of
- our locally available references. RTFM responses, or references to articles
- in recent publications welcome.
-
- with thanks in anticipation,
-
- Kevin Broekhoven Computing Centre
- applications programmer Queens University K7L-3N6 (Canada)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 84
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