> What other choice did they have?

Dare I say Linux?

> Seriously, what other freely-redistributable UNIX system projects have
> well-understood source bases, have the potential for
> commercialization, have a well-established track record for keeping
> the system rather stable and development carefully steered over time,
> and actually run on the ARM?

Linux certainly doesn't meet all of the above criterium, but DEC seems
to have thrown time and money at it in the past.  And with that full time
DEC employed raving Linux advocate John "Maddog" Hall still at large...


Carl