On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Amir" == Amir Karger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> In the platform page, the first paragraph ends with "..., and
> >> Solaris, and Digital Unix. " Is it just me, or is there an
> >> extraneous "and"? Note that Digital Unix (aka DEC OSF/1) is now
> >> Tru64 Unix :)
>
> Amir> "and" removed. As for the Tru64 thing, am I missing a joke, or
> Amir> am I supposed to replace DU with TU?
>
> Unfortunately, this OS keeps changing names... OSF/1 was renamed to
> Digital Unix in order to emphasize the owner (when the name of DEC was
> changed to Digital), but when Compaq bought Digital, they could not
> just keep it. So they paid an army of marketing monkeys whho type on a
> keyboard until the name Tru64 emerged...
>
> You could maybe put the three names :)
How about putting::
"Tru64 Unix (the OS formerly known as Digital Unix)."
;-)
Allan. (ARRae)
