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To: RTev who wrote (17039)	2/27/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: RAYS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

All: What is the date you have to be a holder of shares by on record, in order to partake of the split?Thanks! GO MSFT!!

To: RTev who wrote (17039)	2/27/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Sure, it resulted in variations in both Unix and C, but was the result so bad? Both run on just about any powerful processor available and both managed to become significant standards. And even the variations aren't so severe. I'm not a Unixoid, but on the surface Linux looks exactly like the Ultrix or Digital Unix that I use when I telnet into my ISP. The utilities are the same. Many programs (including X-servers) are recompiled to work on both Unix variants. At work we have tools we wrote in ANSI C that work fine on SunOS, won't run reliably in the previous version of Solaris, and won't even link in the current version of Solaris. And all of these Unix OSes were written by the same company: Sun! (I'm not directly involved with those tools so I can't tell you what the issues are.)

To: RTev who wrote (17039)	2/27/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: J Krnjeu	Respond to of 74651

Mr. RTev, Years before anyone thought of operating systems, AT&T's Bell System agreed to give up the intellectual property rights to its inventions. They could hold patents and copyrights, but had to open them to anyone who wanted to use them. I'm no Unix historian but I'm not sure if that is totally correct. Unix was sold 3 or 4 times to different companies. I know Bell Labs sold it. I know Novell brought it and sold it and so did HP. I think HP paid $345,000,000. Only one company at a time owns unix. Thank You JK