From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 4 11:32:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69EA15064 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.0.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052BF51723; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:30:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from bone.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bone.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 361DB1D77; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 13:32:14 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu> <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 13:32:14 -0600 Message-Id: <19991104193214.361DB1D77@bone.nectar.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 4 November 1999 at 9:44, "David O'Brien" 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