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From: LARRY@JPL-VLSI.ARPA
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Subject: The death of Unix and the childhood of S1
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Date: Mon, 6-Aug-84 19:29:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  6 19:29:00 1984
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From:  Larry Carroll 

What Little of S1 Corp. says about Unix and CP/M is essentially true.  What 
he implies I very much doubt: that his company's S1 operating system is 
superior and the wave of the future.

In the first place, a new product has to be marketed well.  Compare the ads for S1 to those of AT&T, Digital Research, and Microsoft--S1s makes grandiose claimsin an unattractive format.  Try to talk to the people they send to places like 
Comdex--unless you claim to be someone with the power to buy several hundred 
copies of their product you'll be ignored.

More important, Unix, CP/M, and MS-DOS has a huge sociological base of knowledge-able people who can make the micro-Trinity work for their employers.  And thereis a software base of applications programs that do useful work.

Lastly, the sellers of Unix, CP/M, and MS-DOS are not standing still.  The threeoperating systems are coming ever closer together; industry-wide standards are 
being developed, though we still have a long and painful transition time ahead 
of us.  I wish S1 or someone could spare us the problems we have today and will continue to have through the transition period, but I don't see any realistic 
hope for their revolutionary tactics.
						Larry @ jpl-vlsi
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