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- From: geertj@ica.philips.nl (Geert Jan de Groot)
- Subject: Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x - how ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.230706.18328@ica.philips.nl>
- Keywords: Enterprising opportunity
- Organization: Philips Consumer Electronics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- References: <1ga8msINNf3q@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <1992Dec14.153014.15047@sdc.com> <lma.724397841@dayton.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec16.162438.18492@nobeltech.se> <1992Dec20.230357.16102@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:07:06 GMT
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- paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham) writes:
- >Sun spent a lot of time encouraging software vendors to port to UNIX in the
- >first place. Did IBM or DEC? Not until very recently. Did HP? Only when the
- >software didn't compete with it's own products. These software vendors feel
- >that they have an investment in Sun for making this UNIX software market
- >possible. Sun is the vendor that said all along "Standards, standards,
- >standards!"
-
- >I think that the move to Solaris 2 will not be as bad as everyone thinks.
-
- Hmm. Most of my favorite programs are gone or on a list 'to be phased out'.
- And then, there is our source tree /usr/src/local, worth about 100MB of
- sources, that I need to port. Will take me *months* to port (things like elm
- might be easy to port, but how about bootpd, proxyarpd, or tcpdump?).
-
- I never thought I would hate to see new boxes drive into our labs :-(.
-
- Geert Jan
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