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From: billm@jacobi.maths.monash.edu.au (WE Metzenthen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: All UNIXs should merge!!!
Date: 14 Jun 1994 01:32:34 GMT
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[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.admin ]
[ Author was matt.kangas@analog.com ]
[ Posted on Thu, 19 May 1994 18:48:31 GMT ]
In article <1994May19.155350.9049@liberty.uc.wlu.edu> zbuckner@sage.wlu.edu (Zach Buckner) writes:
>This may sound like a stupid question, but why can't all UN*Xs merge to
>form one single operating system, which would run on MANY different computer
>types?
You're right... it is a stupid question. People have been asking this for
at least the last decade, and it's still a stupid question. ;-)
>I know that UNIX has been around for a while, but sooner or later..... There's
>going to be a need for organization. A program, in my opinion should run
>on any UNIX with compilation.
>All the UNIX makers should merge to form a committee which SETS STANDARDS. If
>a change needs to be made, it is mentioned at a committee meeting, and all
>UNIXs change.
Har har. And you think committees get anything accomplished? A committee
would have killed Linux off long ago... it is only because it is the
product of anarchy that it has succeeded. (Think about that for a while...)
Take a look into the history of UNIX, laddy - why BSD is different from
System V at all (thank goodness!), what happened to Univel and the
OSF (Hint: Open Software Foundation is an oxymoron), etc.
If corporate committes decided everything, we'd all be using AIX. Yow!
-Matt
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Bill Metzenthen
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Monash University
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