From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 4 9:45:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 287D615148 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15421; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:44:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA72112; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:44:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: nm Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Message-ID: <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu>; from nmanisca@vt.edu on Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 10:11:53AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message