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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Irix 5.0
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <Bx9qEH.8q@fiu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 05:57:12 GMT
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- In <Bx9qEH.8q@fiu.edu> jorgec@serss0 (Jorge Castellano) writes:
- | I remember somebody mentioning that Irix 5.0 would be released before the end
- | of 1992. Anybody know anything about this? Will it be based on SVR4? If I purchased an Indigo now, would I be able to upgrade to 5.0 for free??
-
- I don't think a date has been announced yet. Yes, 5.0 is (one of)
- the working names for the SVR4 based OS release (which isn't quite
- an accurate description; but the API is (mostly) SVR4 compliant,
- with assorted other things, like more POSIX stufff, etc. etc.)
-
- Your sales rep should be able to tell you whatever we have publicly
- stated/committed to support, and perhaps when.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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