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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!yale!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:44:58 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9301032245.04@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <C01Czy.685@iphase.com> <1hr3mmINN9cn@spool.mu.edu> <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org>
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- In article <C0AMMu.Lwq@queernet.org> rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
- >In article <1hr3mmINN9cn@spool.mu.edu> marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
- >>No, I think it's the rumor I've heard. Goes like this. A Novell promo
- >>about how 'wonderful' this new Unix offering is going to be. Simplifyed.
- >>All those commands no one uses will be gone. Like sed, awk, grep.
- >>Perhaps 'hacked up' isn't a good word....how bout busted.
- >
- >Your rumor's a lie, then. I've used UNIX, BSD and System V flavors,
- >since 1984. UnixWare *is* UNIX. Nothing's missing; you simply can
- >do things without spelling out commands on a ouija board *IF* *YOU*
- >*CHOOSE* *TO*...
-
- This is what I have been trying to make people understand for days. Novell
- is not going to disturb the status quo of the current UNIX licensees, but
- they are going to offer a version of UNIX that can run in the Novell net
- world, and be administrated with a mouse.
-
- This is good for UNIX.
-
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- Rick Kelly rmkhome!rmk@merk.com merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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