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- From: paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham)
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.040842.17686@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com> <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> <root.725919544@maui>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:08:42 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
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- >In <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
- >>In article <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com>, msf@fsg.com (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.
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-
- Just a thought...
- Did DEC kill their MIPS line stone dead, or what?
- Are they still selling it? Will it have the latest OS release?
- Which OS? Sounds like the Sun 3 treatment to me ;-)
- Sounds like another whole architecture fly-sprayed into oblivion.
- Seems like they get no flames for it, tho'.
-
- -PaulR.
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