Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!rsk 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 Lines: 33 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 ARPA: rsk@purdue UUCP: { allegra, decvax, ihnp4, harpo, seismo, teklabs, ucbvax } !pur-ee!rsk