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- From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Date: 19 Dec 1992 22:34:53 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Dec19.221627.20632@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin) writes:
-
- >Now, Sun is abandoning SunOS!!! The question IS NOT why don't vendors
- >port their apps but WHY can't I run my old apps on new, faster hardware?
-
- To be fair, Solaris 2 does include a backwards compatibility mode
- which takes care of a lot of applications software.
-
- Things like device drivers won't work for sure.
-
- >proprietary software and OS's. Now, they're telling everyone to
- >abandon their old knowledge and apps for a new OS. What does Solaris
-
- It's not "a new OS". It's just a new flavour of Unix. Most users
- will see little to nothing different. Sysadmins will see serious
- gains (at the price of having to add new knowledge).
-
- >If this is the direction that Sun is taking, then they will definitely
- >alienate people who bought their machines. Sun is no better and no
- Sun has done well being very swift in moving technologies.
- When the Sun/3 and Sun-386i were murdered, some users were indeed
- hurt. But all in all, these were sound decisions which advanced
- the state of technology in the world of Suns.
-
- Witness how doltish Microsoft has been about MS-DOS for > a decade,
- for a picture of contrast.
-
- >have been really impressed with the way DEC is remanaging their
- >business and producing fast machines (i.e. Alpha). I hate the
- Come on... DEC's doing a fast CPU has nothing with changing the
- way DEC thinks about computing. They would still much rather
- you run Vmess or not-there instead of using Unix.
-
- -ans.
- --
- Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu
-