Is System V going down the tube?

[Alan M. Marcum]

An interesting question regarding the statistics Bill Tuthill quoted

[vis.	Xenix		77%
	Version 7	20%
	System III	 3%	(System V must be 0%)]

is, to what do these statistics pertain?  Is this a measure of
the development genesis of the systems, of the licensing path
taken by the various manufacturers, or what?

One would expect that several thousand (yes, THOUSAND) Un*x
installations would show up SOMEWHERE in the above figures, yes?
And yet, Fortune Systems ("For:Pro") is nowhere listed.  UNLESS,
of course, we talk about the licensing agreements, in which case
For:Pro is included in the Xenix figure.

Note that For:Pro is NOT a Xenix re-port.  Neither is For:Pro
Xenix based.  For financial reasons, though, Fortune's LICENSE is
based on the Xenix license.

As far as the technical port is concerned, For:Pro is V7 based,
with many of the 4.1 commands included.  Fortune has made many
kernel modifications, including several to the scheduler, new I/O
drivers, and a mechanism for automatically determining the device
controllers attached to the system and accessing the appropriate
device drivers dynamically.

(Note that these statements are NOT official Fortune positions,
merely observations based on my experiences.)
-- 
Alan M. Marcum		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rhino!marcum