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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.005735.7917@twg.com>
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- Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:57:33 GMT
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- * HP has 4 architectures: PA-RISC, 3000, 68xxx, x86
- * DEC has 4 architectures: Alpha, VAX, MIPS, x86
- * IBM has ? architectures: RS/6000, ...
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- All the water behind one balloon (or is that wood behind one arrow.. I forget).
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- * Sun has 1 architecture: SPARC
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- (or is it 2: SPARC, x86)
-
- I don't fault them for jumping from Motorola chips. If Motorola couldn't
- stand the heat, so Sun shoved 'em out of the kitchen. (Heat in this case
- being a performance gain curve where system performance is supposed to
- double every 1.5 years).
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- I don't fault them for switching OS bases. SysV is much closer to POSIX
- anway and having API compatibility is an EXTREMELY GOOD thing. Makes our
- skills MUCH more widely applicable.
-
- Why're y'all scared to learn a few new commands anyway??
-
- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- "Unix is a great idea being sold by companies who couldn't sell
- <- fast food in Somalia." - bill davidsen <davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM>
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