Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: PR1ME 32I mode (was Re: Porting OSes (was DEC RISC Architecture)) Message-ID: Date: 2 Nov 90 15:43:14 GMT References: <4462@trantor.harris-atd.com> <107038@convex.convex.com> <3970@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: meissner@osf.org's message of 31 Oct 90 16:02:21 GMT On 31 Oct 90 16:02:21 GMT, meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) said: meissner> It's interesting that when I started on the C compiler (~81 or meissner> 82), the person who had done the functional and product specs, meissner> had estimated that DG would sell only a handful of licenses, meissner> and a few machines. The entire UNIX market segment was meissner> estimated to be a few Universities, AT&T, and the Bell meissner> operating companies. The b****y suckers. Didn't they know that despite DEC's active opposition 10% of VAX sales were at that time for BSD (which was not even a product), and BSD was ARPA sponsored and thus virtually a must for the entire research sector, not just Universities? Didn't they know that AT&T and the BOCs were the single largest DEC customer, and Unix was their chance to get a foot in the door there? Ever heard of ARPA, TENEX and the DEC-20? Bah. Bah. Incidentally: currently the ARPA sponsored OS is Mach... -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk