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- From: strat@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Keywords: interesting old thought
- Message-ID: <1hl1v0INNpic@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 07:59:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: matt.1hl1v0INNpic
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec22.203852.8733@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Dec27.033255.11067@eskimo.com>
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- nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse) writes:
-
- ["we won't take it" garbage deleted]
-
- > Write into your purchase orders for new Sun equipment that the purchase
- >is conditioned on the equipment being able to run Sun/OS 4.1.x.
-
- It's posts like these that make me wonder how we have gotten as far as
- we have. Why not take this ludicrus concept to extreme? Why not
- write into your purchase orders for new automobiles that the purchase
- is conditioned on the equipment being able to run on Leaded gasoline
- -- or require that television manufacturers provide you with two
- rotary knobs at the frunt of every set so that you can tune into your
- favorite VHF stations and, with the selection of U on the top knob,
- also have the added enjoyment of the UHF stations selected from the
- bottom knob. All this advancement and change has gotten out of hand.
- What are we using UNIX for anyway? Lest we forget that Multics is the
- One True Operating System and COBOL is the Programming Language of
- Choice. Throw out your EMACS and vi editors and go back to the method
- of user input bequeathed to us by God Almighty, the Punched Card.
-
- M-x soapbox-mode
-
- One year from today we shall live in an entirely different computing
- environment. UNIX will be threatened with the market arrival of
- Microsloth NT -- The Megalomaniac Antichrist Bill ("Ding, dong, UNIX
- is Dead!") Gates is going to screw our Beloved Operating System into
- the ground with an Inferior and Bogus product designed to steal OS
- sales away from UNIX in the most obvious and influential computing
- markets. In order to Survive ... indeed our Only Chance of resisting
- assimilation is to *UNITE* under USL.
-
- The very FUTURE of academic, scientific, and business computing is at
- stake here, and *you* would take steps to jeopardize a Twenty Year
- investment simply because a few canned apps have to be recompiled to
- work with new Sun platforms?
-
- Stratocaster
- --
- Steve Davis (I'm a student, not a spokesperson!)
- strat@cis.ksu.edu - Kansas State University - Manhattan KS
-
- PC's? Blech. Who wants a politically correct computer?
-