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- From: uunet!wlbr.eaton.com!etn-rad!jru (John Unekis)
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- We recently had some SUN reps come to give a presentation about SPARC.
- They were strongly suggesting that due to their relationship with AT&T
- (that is AT&T will soon sell SPARC) it will soon be the case that if you
- are not a SPARC machine you will not *really* be UNIX compatible. They
- were talking about a coming binary standard, so that you could buy a
- program written for UNIX and know that it would run on your UNIX machine
- the same way you know that PC software will always run on your Intel/PC.
- This binary standard would assumably be based on the SPARC instruction
- set.
- Is this stuff true or is it just marketing hype? Is UNIX really going to
- become hardware dependent? What about all of us out here with our 680x0
- or 80x86 or VAXen or whatever? Are we going to be second-class UNIX users,
- unable to run the bulk of UNIX software? Can anybody out there clarify
- this?
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- Any opinion expressed above is mine only. {ihnp4 or voder}!wlbr!etn-rad!jru
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- Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 34
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