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From: rsk@pur-ee.UUCP (Darth Wombat)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Computerworld 2/6/84
Message-ID: <1583@pur-ee.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 01:26:38 EST
Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1583
Posted: Tue Feb 14 01:26:38 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 06:16:56 EST
Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University
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Quoting from the article on p. 14 by Patricia O'Keefe:

	"...it appears that the 15-year-old operating system developed
	by  Bell Laboratories will, by default, become the standard for
	microcomputer-based multiuser, multitasking and/or networked
	environments."

Good grief, the DP community has *finally* noticed!

Quoting further, from Robert Fertig, president of Enterprise Information
Systems, Inc.:

	"IBM is looking at the situation and realizes that it can't stop
	Unix from moving forward, but it can enlarge on Unix, providing
	features to entice users over a one-way bridge to IBM systems."

Such as rewriting the kernel in Cobol, perhaps?

One more quote, from Kenneth Lim, a research analyst with Dataquest, Inc:

	"Unix has no importance in the micro market", primarily because
	the powerful and sophisticated system has yet to prove itself
	in the business environment.

Gee, somebody better tell Sun and Masscomp and Pyramid and Callan and Pixel
and everybody else in the *nix business about this right away!

	--Unix, is, of course, a trademark of Ma Bell.
-- 
"Go ahead...make my day."
Darth Wombat
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