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- From: kufeld_k@ipl.uucp (Kurt Kufeld)
- Subject: Re: HP-UX 9.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.201539.12646@ipl.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:15:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.200543.28463@riacs.edu> <1992Aug26.135815.1@cc.uvcc.edu> <25855@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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- In <25855@dog.ee.lbl.gov> anderson@randolf.lbl.gov writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug26.135815.1@cc.uvcc.edu>, olsen_jo@cc.uvcc.edu writes:
- >|> In article <1992Aug25.200543.28463@riacs.edu>,
- >okuyama@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Darin Okuyama YR) writes:
- >|> > This may be a dumb question but: is HP-UX 9.0 going
- >|> > to be OSF? Can someone give me some details on what
- >|> > kinds of MAJOR things are going to change when HP
- >|> > moves to 9.0.
- >|> >
- >|> > Darin Okuyama
- >|> > NASA Ames Research Center
- >|> >
- >|> Nope. OSF revision numbering is in the 1.X range I believe. The 9.0 will
- >|> be genuine HP-UX.
- >|>
- >|> John Olsen (Used to work for HP in Fort Collins)
- >|> olsen_jo@uvadm.uvcc.edu
-
- >I've not yet seen what is included in 9.0 yet, but I'm afraid it will not
- >be OSF/1-ish enough.
-
- >I'd like to go on the record as saying that some customers want OSF/1
- >features ASAP.
-
- I completely agree. We were a non-HP customer (having been with DEC for the
- last 20 years) until last year. We are now using a fair (30+) HP 730 & 750
- workstations. One of the prerequisites for our switch was future OSF/1 support.
- This seeming switch stinks.
-
- I fully agree, if IBM/DEC/HP etc. stuck to it they'ld probably beat SUN & AT&T
- and maybe windows NT no problem. This constant waffling it what has given
- Unix some of its problems and caused a lack of acceptance by large corporate
- clients.
-
- If I knew then that they (and others) would wobble, I may not have recommended
- HP.
-
- HP, I hope you're listening.
-
- --
- Kurt Kufeld
- Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc.
- kufeld_k@ipl.ca
- (403) 420-5330
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