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- From: jim@accelr8.com (Jim Reiss)
- Subject: Re: Convincing the management
- Organization: Accelr8 Technology Corporation
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:55:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <C19r86.DF2@accelr8.com>
- References: <1993Jan19.122854.22863@jyu.fi> <1993Jan21.143909.5254@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1993Jan21.143909.5254@mksol.dseg.ti.com> pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com writes:
- >>We are hoping to obtain a DEC 3000/400 AXP but have to convince
- >>our management that this is going to be a good buy. There are
- >>those amongst us that would rather invest in SUN Microsystems.
- >>We already possess a VAX4000 and several SUNs, both systems
- >>support SAS/SPSX and a bunch of maths packages for graphics,
- >>simulation and optimisation.
-
- >We've used the following arguments:
- > 6) If the decision is made to run Unix or OSF, the AXP can. The SPARC can't
- > run VMS.
- No, but there is a VMS library emulation available on Suns from our company,
- as well as a DCL interpreter to preserve the same user environment.
- > 7) VMS is compliant with all final POSIX specs (and in line with most of the
- > preliminary ones).
- But VMS POSIX is slow, at last account.
-
- I know this doesn't help your argument, but I figured some other readers
- of this might want to know.
- --
- Jim Reiss (jim@accelr8.com) Accelr8 Technology, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Opinions expressed above are mine. Who else would have them?
-