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- From: rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz)
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs in A/UX
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Sep1.151614.19135@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Sep2.054029.7176@panix.com> <183fioINNg7t@parlo.hal.COM> <1992Sep3.204122.464@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <t5lnhfd.parag@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:20:56 GMT
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- parag@netcom.com (Parag Patel) writes:
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- > (I guess that there are folk who
- >buy A/UX for something other than software development, but I can't
- >imagine why since they would be better off under plain Sys7 anyway.)
-
- You're quite wrong about this. Our clients have a large installed base
- of Macs. They run quite a lot of Mac applications. Our product is a
- Unix based client-server system that uses X for display. They could:
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- run MacOS and MacX, and buy a big fast very expensive multi-user Unix
- host to run our server and all the client code (for a few dozen users);
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- or run A/UX on each desktop with MacX so they can run their Mac apps
- and our X client locally, and buy a quadra with A/UX to run our server.
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- Economically, the latter choice wins hands down, even after disk and RAM
- upgrades to the desktop Macs. This is not atypical.
-
- The user-programmer-customer is typical of the old Unix world. It is
- not typical of today's marketplace.
-
- (IMHO, of course)
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- -rich
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