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Re: posix moira?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Dec 2 15:42:46 1997

From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Dec 1997 17:42:10 EST."
             <199712012242.RAA26027@Implementor.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 15:42:19 EST

> If people think moira should not be POSIXified in its entirety, they
> should come argue with me. Note that all current supported and
> semi-supported platforms (Sun, SGI, NetBSD, Linux) are POSIX, and
> there's no chance that we'll ever qualify another non-POSIX platform.
> (And I haven't built moira clients for Ultrix and SunOS since
> mid-summer.)

I'm not convinced that it isn't a pinch too early to kill the
DECstations, but it is probably OK.  (One of the things on my list of
things to do is to talk to Naomi about a schedule for completely
desupporting the DECs

	Jonathon

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