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Xref: sserve comp.unix.solaris:541 comp.unix.bsd:7978 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!pacbell.com!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!griffin!gab10 From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T) Message-ID: <6dWM02Mp2bpe01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 17 Nov 92 17:23:52 GMT References: <kzin.721442926@cc.gatech.edu> <BxLz6x.EL7@cs.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov13.232053.7061@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 28 In article <1992Nov16.075931@eklektix.com>, rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: > >...So, without someone to carry that torch, BSD will slowly die. > > On the face of it, it's true--**IF** nobody picks up the torch from > CSRG, > BSD will die. But that's an "if pigs had wings" argument...the issue > is > not whether there is someone to pick up the torch, but which of the > several > possibilities will be the one to carry it. Actually, the issue is what the user community *believes* is going to happen. Significant damage has already been done (CSRG dropping the project without another group already signed up to support it). Few businesses, would purchase an O/S with such an uncertain future, no matter how good it is. BSDI and 386bsd will keep BSD alive in the academic world as O/S learning tools, but as a commercial product, BSD *is* definitely dying. My understanding is that, many of BSD's contributions to Unix have been adopted in whole or in part into the SysVr4 O/S (where it has not conflicted with POSIX or SysVr3). So in a sense, BSD lives on. -- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a | great idea hits you, and just before you realize | what is wrong with it.