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- From: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- In-Reply-To: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com's message of Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20: 19:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <WELCH.93Jan2194416@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Originator: welch@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu
- Sender: news@cis.ohio-state.edu (NETnews )
- Organization: OSU-LAIR
- References: <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com> <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> <root.725919544@maui>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:44:16 GMT
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- In article <root.725919544@maui> kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) writes:
- In <1928@niktow.canisius.edu> pavlov@niktow.canisius.edu (Greg Pavlov) writes:
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- >In article <C03HLL.41z@fsg.com>, msf@fsg.com (Michael S. Fischbein) writes:
- >>
- >> Contrast this with the complete lack of committment on their
- >> competitor's parts in developing OSF/1 shortly thereafter. Neither IBM
- >> nor DEC, nor any of the other OSF players ever actually committed to
- >> *using* OSF/1 on their machines. ....
- >>
- > That will be very unexpected news to the several hundred software vendors
- > porting applications to DEC Alpha OSF/1 systems .....
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- Why is it that DEC (at least locally) refuses to give a release date
- for OSF on Alpha then? [.] From what I understand, OSF will be available
- 93Q3, but what about the old Ultrix vendors who are hosed?
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- Just to inject some real data into the discussion... Venue's Lisp product,
- Medley, is already ported to OSF/1 on the MIPS-based DEC machines and
- on the Alpha's (the port was first done to the MIPS machines, then to
- the Alpha when it became available). The person who did the port sez
- it took him about 3 weeks.
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- Some trade rag also recently reported that IBM's AIX for the 3090's is
- OSF/1-based. I dunno if that's all the way down to the kernel or not,
- it wasn't reported. Can't remember which rag it was either.
-
- ...arun
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- Arun Welch
- Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
- welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
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