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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why is Sun abandoning SunOS4.1.3?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.212558.22201@siemens.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:25:58 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.221627.20632@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec30.192319.24726@shearson.com>
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- >>port their apps but WHY can't I run my old apps on new, faster hardware?
-
- > Why can't you? As long as you're dynamically linked, your
- > old apps will run.
-
- Almost no third-party vendors that I've seen deliver a dynamically-linked
- binary. Gnumacs insists on being statically linked, too. What about when
- those "old apps" need to find some file along a certain path, with a certain
- format, or rely on the output format of something like "df".
-
- > Sometimes to get further advances in software,
- > you take a hit.
-
- SysV gave us a decent cron system. I've yet to see anything else in it that
- counts as an advance, and a great many things that are steps backward.
-
- > A unified Unix. Something that the Unix market never, never
- > had
-
- And never will.
-
- > with $BILL Gates. This splintering causes confusion
-
- And having to significantly modify the vendor's OS to have a decent environment
- doesn't?
-
- > 1.) Lest you forget, pick up the Wall Street Journal and look
- > under the NASDAQ listings.
-
- What does the parasitical abstraction known as "stock" have to do with anything?
-
- > HP gives you several OS's, all incompatible with each other.
-
- Huh? There's HPUX, and the MPE stuff which I don't think ever had much of a
- market share anyway.
-
- > Will your VAX/VMS apps run without porting (or re-compiling) on an Alpha
- > running (ha!) OpenVMS?
-
- Would I want to run either in the first place?
-
- > I wonder if my future HDTV set will improve
- > the b&w HoneyMooners reruns?
-
- It probably will, broadcasters willing. They were probably shot on film,
- and would benefit from a new transfer.
-
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