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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!jericho!gord
- From: gord@jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
- Subject: Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x - how ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.220148.5110@jericho.uucp>
- Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
- References: <ByzMur.9D8@micromuse.co.uk> <1992Dec10.132950.2827@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> <1992Dec15.185236.14135@eskimo.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:01:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.185236.14135@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
- >Actually, there's something about this whole "I don't want to move to Solaris
- >2.0" thing that bothers me. It's not really about the end users either. It's
- stuff deleted..
- >And also, it's not like it doesn't happen. MS-DOS is at 5.0, VMS is at
- >(what?) 5.1.x? And every time, something broke. But also, every time
- >something was fixed, something was improved.
-
- Yabut..
- In the case of MSDOS, my old dos apps will still run under dos 5.
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- I don't think there is an easy answer: I think Sun is right to move their OS
- to one a bit more like other S5VR4 unixen for compatibility etc, (and
- hopefully improvements!!), but at the same time, a software vendor has
- to spend real time and money to alter a product to work on a new OS,
- when the vendor would rather be adding features, fixing bugs. You
- can't expect them to give away new versions for free...
-
- Oh well, we will all have to shut down our unix boxes when Windows NT
- arrives this fall..( oh, I mean next spring.. or was it next summer?)
- cause microsoft will have singlehandedly solved all the OS issues in
- one release that unix developers have spent years working on...
- (This last paragraph uses Sarcasm, eh?)
-
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- Gord Wait SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
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