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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!aaron
- From: aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: New to HPs...Thinking about buying one...need advice...
- Message-ID: <721483576.8584@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 12:06:20 GMT
- References: <BxG7DF.76E@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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- Randall Atkinson (atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
- : I have real problems with HP-UX ( I call it "caffeine-free diet
- : UNIX" or "UNIX with nothing" as everyone here knows) but the HP
- : hardware has been rock solid and the performance of the HP hardware is
- : outstanding. Folks who think that an x86 cpu will give me the raw
- : performance I already have on my desk are very confused.
- :
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- The hardware is good but HP-UX is neither one thing nor the other,
- and certainly not as easy to port things onto as it should be. Also
- it annoys me that HP-UX don't send me patches when they fix one pf
- the many bugs, or the response centre staff seem ignorant of its
- existence even when you quote the number at them.
-
- Aaron Turner aaron@minster.york.ac.uk
-
- "Should have bought some silicon graphics" as my users chant
- when the engineer turns up to mend something.
-