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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Solaris 2.x: resistance to it?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 22:33:39 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In article <1992Nov18.141013.22833@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> Thomas.Weihrich@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Weihrich) writes:
- >Yes, at Augsburg University folks are not moving to Solaris 2.x.
- ...
- >So I guess we'll be using the Sun machines until they
- >break apart and then move to a different vendor (probably DEC).
-
- If you think converting from a Sun running Solaris 1.x to a Sun running
- Solaris 2.x is too painful to contemplate, what makes you think that
- converting to a DEC system running OSF/x or Windows NT will be any easier?
- At least Solaris 2.x claims it will run well-behaved Solaris 1.x
- executables.
-
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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