[rescue] FDDI questions.

[gonufer]

Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Indeed, as with Greg's extremely detailed message, I stand very much
> corrected on Sun's early SVR4 development involvement.  I honestly did
> not know about it


There were no lack of posturing press releases at the time and
there was a very large investment in Sun Microsystems, Inc., by AT&T. 
The companies that were left out (ie, were scared :-) formed
the OSF.  Those were important days in the history of commercial Unix.
Nowadays all of the action is with the non-commercial Unix-alikes
and the commercial Unices trod along.

 > Apparently AT&T isn't very anxious to advertise
 > Sun's involvement in said development.

Their purchase of a 20% stake in Sun at the time demonstrates
otherwise.

It's hard to find press releases that old on the web but
this slightly-related press release from AT&T covers some
of it:

	http://www.att.com/press/0890/900823.nca.html

The current owners of "Unix" (SCO now Caldera) have no
vested interest in claiming their product is based on
joint AT&T/Sun foundations.

-greg


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