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- From: pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: ULTRIX .or. OSF?
- Message-ID: <2000@niktow.canisius.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 10:16:25 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.151700.9709@lth.se> <1k78j4INN3kh@slab.mtholyoke.edu>
- Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo NY. 14208
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- In article <1k78j4INN3kh@slab.mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >
- > When DEC announced last spring that they wouldn't
- > be porting OSF/1 to existing MIPS machines the users screamed bloody
- > murder and DEC management said "oops" and quickly announced that they
- > had changed their mind. ....
-
- But was that whole "exercise" really one of decision-making or to give a
- clear "signal" to software vendors not to waste their time ? You know,
-
- DEC: "OSF/1 and MIPS forever !!!
- The golden sliced bread !!"
-
- DEC: (six months later) "OSF/1 and MIPS ? Never !!
- Alpha, the golden sliced bread !!"
-
- USERS: "You damn bloody well better !!"
-
- DEC: "Oh well, ok, for a while, however.....
- it's still Alpha, the golden sliced bread !!"
-
- VENDORS: "OSF/1 and MIPS ??? *@^#^@# You gotta be kidding !!
- (rhyme ? we don't need no stinking rhyme. Reality
- is it's own poetry ...)"
-
-
- > If I can't rely on DEC to support the investment I've made
- > in them, I'm going to turn to Sun and/or HP which have a better track-
- > record -- and guess what -- are profitable as companies because of it.
- >
-
- There seems to be a lot of that going on, around these parts, anyway, but
- substitute "IBM" (RS/6000) for "Sun". Not that IBM is having an easy time
- of it either. It's a tough (impossible ?) business to be in the computer
- vendor business these days. Wouldn't want to be in their shoes, no way
- sir. Life's too short as it is.
-
- greg pavlov
- pavlov@fstrf.org
-