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- From: anderson@randolf.lbl.gov ()
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: HP-UX 9.0
- Date: 3 Sep 1992 00:08:17 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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- Message-ID: <26035@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- References: <25855@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1992Sep1.201539.12646@ipl.uucp> <37567@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <4966@calmasd.Prime.COM> <1992Sep2.195002.29160@riacs.edu>
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- Keywords: OSF
-
- In article <1992Sep2.195002.29160@riacs.edu>,
- okuyama@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Darin Okuyama YR) writes:
- |> gdh@calmasd.Prime.COM (Gerald Hall) writes:
- |> >I believe that OSF has announced that they are getting out of the OS
- |> >business and that 1.1 (which is just a "bug fix" release of 1.0, which
- |> >was based on AIX and is not a mach kernel) will be the last OS from OSF.
- |> >This was written up in recent (July?) issues of both UNIX World and
- |> >UNIX Review. The current issue of one of these (sorry I get them confused)
- |> >has a quote from someone at HP to the effect that HP has abandoned any
- |> >plans for adopting OSF.
- |>
- |> This is a cruel joke, right. HP PLEASE SAY THIS IS A CRUEL JOKE!!!
- |> A lot of people are going to need to know if this is true or not.
- |>
- |> SPEAK HP!
- |>
- |> Darin Okuyama
- |> NASA Ames Research Center
- |>
-
- I'm with you on this. I sure hope what we are hearing isn't true. I
- can't help
- but wonder if HP isn't drifiting back to it's SYSV roots...
-
- Regarding Mach as an OS kernel: seems to me NeXT is running (seemingly
- effectively)a Mach kernel (or derivative)?
-
- What really confuses me: I am a primary contact to OSF for Argonne National
- Laboratory's OSF membership, and receive plenty of OSF literature, and still
- can't make sense of this. (Unfortunately, thanks to other project deadlines
- I've not been on top of this as I should have - i.e., I've not been to
- an OSF member meeting yet - but I'm sure going in November!!)
-
- Anyway - OSF certainly sends out information on what it's up to,
- including OSF course updates on, such things as "The OSF/1 MK Technical
- Seminar"
- ("introducing the OSF/1 microkernel"), and OSF/1 internals courses reflecting
- features found in the new OSF/1.1 release (citing performance improvements...).
- And OSF Research Institute papers on specifications for future releases of the
- RI's Mach Microkernel (Mach 3). Sounds like they are still in the OS
- game to me.
-
- (And what the heck is DEC doing then - are they widowed with their OSF/1 and
- going to assume all devlopment themselves?)
-
- Color me confused.
-
- - Mark Anderson
- Argonne National Laboratory (US DOE)
-
-