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- From: wk@cup.hp.com (Wayne Krone)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: DAT drive on 835, help please
- Message-ID: <Brx41A.G8u@cup.hp.com>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 00:00:46 GMT
- References: <1547@hcshh.hcs.de>
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- Organization: HP-UX Kernel Lab, Cupertino
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- hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes:
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- : do you think, just because some people needed more horsepower and bought
- : an 800, they don't need the promised openness ???
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- The decision was based on the fact that many (note I didn't say "all")
- s800 customers are more concerned with robustness than access to a wider
- source/variety of peripherals. We've tested some third party
- peripherals and found they work fine in "normal" operation but cause
- problems in corner cases (e.g., powerfail situations; on a heavily used
- bus with other devices).
-