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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <id.BD0W.W0I@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:41:15 GMT
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- In article <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> riyer@shakti.ncst.ernet.in (Rajappa Iyer) writes:
- > are a case in point. Sun users cannot plonk for the new machines no
- > matter *how* attractive the pricing for the simple reason that they
- > have already invested in apps for SunOS 4.1.x.
-
- I don't understand why 4.1 apps don't work under Solaris? Is it a matter of
- Solaris not having back-compatible shared libraries, or did they break
- something?
-
- It's enough to make one go to SCO: I'm running *Microsoft* Xenix-286 binaries
- under System V-386 right now. Compiled in 1984, running in 1992.
-
- > That's precisely the kind of trap I wished to avoid when I switched
- > to Sun. I want to be able to run the same apps on newer and faster machines.
-
- When the Sparc came out that should have made it clear that Sun was't that
- sort of company.
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