Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <14621@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:51:30 GMT
References: <22107@grebyn.com> <14568@cbmvax.commodore.com> <22153@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 28

In article <22153@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <14568@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

>>But there's not all that much NeXTStep software.  The largest market for
>>UNIX + GUI software today is SunOS (reference: Personal Workstation), which
>>is merging with AT&T UNIX, X, OpenLook, etc.  Which is exactly what the 
>>A3000 UNIX runs.  Which means, thanks to ABI, that UNIX SV.4 based SunOS
>>will be binary compatible with A3000s and quite a few other 680x0 family
>>machines out there.

>Sun adopting 68K ABI? This I've gotta see. They don't seem to be
>interested in improving their 68K line at all.  

Regardless of whether or not Sun decides to continue or drop support for
their [rather substantial] installed base of 680x0 machines, it's still A
Good Thing For Us that Sun is merging SunOS with AT&T UNIX.  Sun does lead
the Workstation market, which these days is pretty close to leading the
UNIX market.  If standard 680x0 UNIX is a simple port from standard SPARC
UNIX (and recall that SPARC was designed with 680x0 source level compatibility
in mind), then you're likely to see a healthy supply of 680x0 UNIX software
products.  But they won't run on the NeXT.

>First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T  T E C H N O L O G I E S      / /  

-- 
Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"
   {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh      PLINK: hazy     BIX: hazy
	Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold	-REM