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- From: justin@nx20.mik.uky.edu (justin sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Where are the X headers?
- References: <1992Dec14.191700.19479@netcom.com>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:14:46 GMT
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- In <TML.92Dec15001816@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
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- >Why can't HP salesmen be educated to ask the customers whether they
- >intend to do any software development, and sell the necessary optional
- >software, so people won't have to ask the net once a day where the
- >ANSI C compiler, X headers, etc are...?
-
- Would it really matter? You don't get everything you need with the development
- option anyway.. HP really does need to get their act together.. I mean, IBM
- has included GL with their RS/6000s for a long time now, and HP hasn't even
- Sannounced one! I have all this great hardware (soon to be a whole lot
- better when I go from a 750 to 755), but it's not much good when it runs
- poorly put together pieces of HP system software.
- Mind you, the software is just fine (for the most part.. The 8.0x family
- is/was awfully buggy though..), but all the right pieces aren't in place
- to hold the jigsaw puzzle together. No STREAMS or a full complement of X
- stuff? What were they thinking!? That would be lie Novell selling NetWare,
- but you have to provide your own protocol! <grrrr>
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