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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (8294)	6/4/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	of 74651

Ms. cheryl williamson, <<<The fact this book exists at all is a perfect illustration of how MSFT began to leverage its OS in order to sell their own applications. Contrast that with Unix, which has always been fully documented, and in fact, the source code for BSD Unix is free to the public.>>> I was reading a UNIX book today and it stated that there are so many variations of UNIX, that there is no standard. HP's, Sun's, DEC's unix only run on their own box and can not run on a competitors box. They handle basic routines differently making them unique. As far as the documentation, make sure it's for the variation you want. Thank you JK I really think that the days of UNIX being a standard

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