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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Linux vs. BSD?! Date: 6 Mar 1995 02:23:57 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3jdrnt$4mm@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <3ira54$7vq@quandong.itd.adelaide.edu.au> <1995Mar1.111604.25864@wavehh.hanse.de> <3jbrf1$vl@delos.BSDI.COM> <1995Mar5.171038.26486@wavehh.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <1995Mar5.171038.26486@wavehh.hanse.de>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> wrote: >This is very hypothetic, but I dont think too much of UNIX's >strength's would have been given up when workstation vendors had a >common base UNIX and agreed on things like endianess and bus >systems. (I assume you mean 'if' instead of 'when' above.) Right. They could have decided that everything should be big-endian, and Unix would never have run on an Intel system again, until somebody broke the standard, which would happen about three minutes after it was announced. >If Sun had picked up the BSD sources as they had and those >were GPLed, HP, SGI and DEC could use Sun's version of BSD as a base >for their workstations. How much money has been invensted in UNIX >development and was it worth the effort? Why on earth would Sun want to save their competitors a lot of money? If they really wanted to do that, they could just write a cheque for a few million dollars and hand it to DEC. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.