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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Re: Unix for PDP-11/23s
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Date: 19 Aug 90 20:09:53 GMT
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In article <1990Aug19.034635.26429@virtech.uucp> rickr@virtech.uucp (Rick Rodman) writes:
>
>1. Of the four operating systems once offered for the PDP-11, RSX, RT-11,
>RSTS, and Ultrix, Digital has discontinued only one: Ultrix (Unix).
>So much for Digital's commitment to Unix.
>

This is, of course, silly.  Sun does not provide Unix for the Sun
100U's anymore either (Nothing since 3.2 supported them, I think).  HP
does not provide Unix for the HP9000/200 anymore, either.  I haven't
seen eithers commitment to Unix waver.

The simple fact of the matter is DEC is still selling PDP archetecture
machines to do real-time and process control sorts of things, but
considering you can by many VAX models (VS2000, etc) for less than the
cost of a new PDP-11, I really doubt people we're beating down the
door to buy Ultrix/11 (*if*, in fact, they ever were...I have heard
that there never were more than a very few thousand Ultrix/11 sites).

Moral of the story:  If you want to run a machine that hasn't even
been produced in 5+ years, don't get wacked out of shape if the
manufacturer has left you behind...

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	ken seefried iii		ken@dali.gatech.edu

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