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From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Sun Jan 10 19:19:57 1999

At 11:52 PM 08-01-99 -0800, D. Peschel wrote:

>What _I_ want to know is the relationship between OSF/1, a.k.a. Digital
>UNIX, and AIX. The manual entry for stanza(4) on our DEC system is the same
>as OSF/1 1.0, and it's SO badly written that only IBM could have done it.
>Plus stanzas are an IBM-ism anyway. I bet the entry is pretty much the same
>on AIX systems, too. (I just checked and our AIX doesn't have it. So I
>don't know -- it's just a guess.)

Originally IBM, HP and Digital (and others?) funded the development of a
new implementation of Unix (to be known as OSF/1) to stave off the Mongol
warriors (err, Sun :-). Politics took hold and HP and then IBM pulled out
of OSF (Open Software Foundation) leaving Digital with a shiny new
operating system (later renamed Digital Unix and now Tru64 or some such
abomination). Each of the three vendors developed solutions to various
parts of the operating system (IBM did the filesystem) and the "best of"
ended up in OSF/1 - no wonder this project was doomed.

Hence there are similarities between some bits in AIX and OSF/1.

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