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- From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:05:40 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec22.174827.9514@epas.toronto.edu> <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov> <16052@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
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- In article <16052@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- :> * 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.)
-
- Another point... it's not like HP or DEC really care whether they
- have the same OS on the x86 technology as well as the PA-RISC or Alpha
- technologies. (I know, some Microsoft weenie is probably screaming
- "NT for Alpha" about now. Let the weenies scream.) HP has MPE along
- with HP-UX on PA-RISC, and of course, there's VMS and OSF/1 on Alpha.
-
- ...Mike
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