Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:44:08 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tru64 Unix for $99 Message-ID: <19991104094407.E29186@dragon.nuxi.com> 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 References: <3.0.32.19991104101153.0136de00@mail.vt.edu>
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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
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