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To: Steve Porter who wrote (287)	10/2/1997 9:25:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	of 328

Steve; That sounds like whatever MS adds, then Sun also adds(supports, ie runs what is written) and vice versa. In what way will they differ if each has to support what the other adds? I assume they each tell the other we have added "zambezi routine" and give them the code. If they could add stuff that the other did not support, then the two would diverge and one would run an AP and the other would not. I can see that as long as they both buid it and each version runs all codes, then the only thing to differ would be the name on the package?? With Unix many unique routines were added, and the access addresses were also changed and so you got true divergence. If however developers must write different vers for each program they write(compiles) then it must be all the location addresses for the new codes vary one from the other? Strange way to run a railroad? Bill Bill

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