Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!tuvie!mike
From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: convergence ???
Keywords: DomainOs, HP-UX, OSF
Message-ID: <1640@tuvie>
Date: 14 Jun 90 12:56:09 GMT
Organization: TU Vienna EDP-Center, Vienna, AUSTRIA
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I have been told that HP's aim is to have DomainOS, HP-UX (and 
possibly OSF) converge into one operating system. How is this 
supposed to work? Will they simply kill DomainOS and create 
some compatiblity box for DomainOS programs to run under either
HP-UX or OSF? What I fear is that two of the features I like 
most about DomainOS will fanish, namely the //directory (its cleaner 
than mounting all hosts in the / directory) and the possiblity 
to have variable size swap space. 
DomainOS unfortunately still has lots of incompatibilities with 
UNIX (which from a UNIX user's point of view are simply bugs, not
``features''), but I hope that those will be gone within the next
year or so (that i have been hoping for 2 years now :-(. In the 
meantime, I have been mulling over an idea which I hope will 
alleviate the problems with Apollo's incompatibilities: an 
unmoderated newsgroup for DomainOS patches to publicly available
programs (comp.sources.apollo or comp.sys.apollo.sources ???).

Talking about porting problems, can the latest version of Larry Wall's 
latest version of Configure correctly diagnose DomainOS (especially 
whenn running bsd)? 

				bye,
					mike
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