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[rja]

  The salient point of merging *.xenix and *.microport is that
there very shortly will no longer be significant operational differences
between Bell-Tech/Microport/interactive/AT&T/Intel 's System V/386 and
Microsoft/SCO/IBM's Xenix product since the two products are being merged
into being compatible -- binary compatible even.  Price, device-drivers,
support, etc. will obviously vary by vendor.

  People who oppose the merger and do not address this point aren't
addressing the whole issue.  I might be persuaded that the merger should
hold off until Xenix becomes COFF compatible, but I haven't been
persuaded yet.  In any event, the merger is due Real Soon Now.

  Followups to news.groups PLEASE.
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