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- From: YOUNG@tattoo.cs.widener.edu (Rob Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 02:55:56 GMT
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- Anyone catch the review of Alpha/OSF by the editor of Unix Review in the
- February issue? Basically, (and I am writing this from memory) he states that
- he talked to a number of ISV's at Comdex and said that there are only 50-100
- applications available for OSF/1. His reasoning for so few applications (much
- less than the stated numbers published by DEC) was that the machines were in
- "kernel debug" and DEC was scrambling sending field service people hither and
- tither. I read nothing like that in several newsgroups here. That bothers me.
- Then of course he goes on to give a glowing review of Sun's rollout at the same
- Comdex.
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- My question, are Alpha/OSF platformas having kernel debug problems OR (more
- hideously) is this just a way biased review OR somewhere in between?
-
- Rob
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