Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 13:32:14 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Message-ID: <19991104193214.361DB1D77@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu> <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 4 November 1999 at 9:44, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:11:53AM -0500, nm wrote: > > Compaq cannot give Tru64 away because Compaq is required to pay > > royalties to companies such as AT&T for legacy code. > > Tru64 was known as Digital Unix. Digital Unix was known as OSF/1. OSF/1 > was developed by the Open Software Foundation, starting from code from > IBM's AIX and HP's HP-UX. OSF/1 was developed in response to Sun and > AT&T getting into bed DEC, IBM, and HP were afraid that Sun would end up > controlling Unix and dictate terms to them. I would tend to doubt there > is any AT&T code in Tru64 due to this. However, I would not be surprised > if DEC was still paying royalties to the Open Software Foundation. OSF/1 has AT&T System V code via IBM, thus one of the OSF's major goals (escaping AT&T) was doomed from the beginning. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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