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- From: lhummel@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Lionel Hummel)
- Subject: Re: The end of the MC680X0 UNIX era?
- In-Reply-To: woods@elegant.com's message of Mon, 18 Jan 1993 16:08:09 GMT
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- Organization: Motorola MCD, Urbana Design Center
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:52:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan18.160809.7109@elegant.com> woods@elegant.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan12.183816.16619@phx.mcd.mot.com> fredch@phx.mcd.mot.com (Fred Christiansen) writes:
- >> (disclaimer: I'm no spokeperson. I just have opinions which Marketing
- >> usually does not inquire about.) is that it's a resource issue; fully
- >> supporting 68k and 88k hosts for both R3 and R4 Unix would require a certain
- >> amount of resources which the higher-ups may not feel we have.
- >
- > Rhetorically speaking, why wouldn't they drop SVR3 completely, since I
- > assume it wouldn't take much to include a working version of coff2elf,
- > and then they'd only have to support one O/S (on multiple platforms).
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- SVR3 couldn't possibly go away that easily. Even with the BCS/OCS
- compatibilty available on SVR4, there are still device drivers and
- other forms of SVR3 system support that take time to move to SVR4.
-
- < Lionel
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- Lionel D. Hummel, Software Engineer
- Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center
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- Disclaimer: I'm no spokesperson for my employer; I'm just me.
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