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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Keywords: interesting old thought
- Message-ID: <16052@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 04:08:32 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec22.174827.9514@epas.toronto.edu> <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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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, ...
- >
- > I will bet anything that the number of architectures
- > will be smaller next year, and the year after that.
-
- Yup. For example, 68K-based HP machines may have a longer life than
- 68K-based Sun machines did, but I suspect HP likes HP-PA more than the
- 68K architecture, and that the most interesting HP-UX machines will, in
- the future, be PA machines rather than 68K machines.
-
- (The obvious variant of that will probably apply to DEC as well.)
-