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- From: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: Unix Wars Over (Query)
- Date: 28 Aug 1992 13:31:05 -0700
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
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- Submitted-by: sp@osf.org (Simon Patience)
-
- In article <17jq00INN7ei@ftp.UU.NET>, jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff) writes:
- > Submitted-by: jklobas@ecel.uwa.edu.au (Jane Klobas - mgmt_staff)
- >
- > An industry colleague recalls seeing a press release that stated that the
- > "competing UNIX standards have merged". I recall a notice that suggested
- > that SVID is supported by both OSF and UI. Of course, neither of us can
- > locate the articles in which we think these statements occurred :-)
- > Can anyone shed any light on this, either by confirming or refuting these
- > statements, or by identifying the press release/article in which they
- > appeared?
-
- I will not confirm/deny/comment on anything to do with "Unix wars" but what
- may help you are the facts that a) OSF/1 1.0 supported SVID 2 and OSF/1 1.1
- supports SVID 3 and b) USL has just announced that System V will support OSFs
- AES (Application Environement Specification). Thus the same programming
- environment will exist on either system regardless of whether you developed to
- SVID or AES. OSF and UI/USL have always worked together anyway to ensure
- that these two specifications are not contradictory, this is just another
- step in the co-operation.
-
- Simon.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 17
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