NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/hardware/6586

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From: [e-mail] (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Greg Pavlov) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael S. Fischbein) writes:
>>
>> Contrast this with the complete lack of committment on their
>> competitor's parts in developing OSF/1 shortly thereafter.  Neither IBM
>> nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
>> *using* OSF/1 on their machines. ....
>>
>  That will be very unexpected news to the several hundred software vendors
>  porting applications to DEC Alpha OSF/1 systems .....

Why is it that DEC (at least locally) refuses to give a release date
for OSF on Alpha then?  At this point, only VMS is supposed to be
available on Alpha.  From what I understand, OSF will be available
93Q3, but what about the old Ultrix vendors who are hosed?  Sounds
like the same complaint that's being lodged against sun.

--
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
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