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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <16178@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:56:52 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >Neither IBM
- >nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
- >*using* OSF/1 on their machines.
-
- To be fair, DEC does seem to be moving in the direction of having OSF/1
- be their UNIX offering; their last position was, I think, that they'd
- even put it on their MIPS-based machines.
-
- However, I've not heard any committment from IBM or HP to use OSF/1 in
- its entirety on all their UNIX platforms, although IBM is, I think,
- using it as the basis for the AIX running on 390's and maybe PS/2's (not
- to be confused with the AIX running on RS/6000's).
-