Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:70238 alt.sys.sun:1824 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!hub.ucsb.edu!spectrum.CMC.COM!lars From: lars@spectrum.CMC.COM (Lars Poulsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.sys.sun Subject: Re: Commodore to take over Sun's 680x0 and 386 lines? Message-ID: <1990Oct27.005409.18439@spectrum.CMC.COM> Date: 27 Oct 90 00:54:09 GMT References: <6831@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct22.004657.12644@mcs.anl.gov> <3710@uniol.UUCP> Organization: Rockwell CMC Lines: 15 In article <3710@uniol.UUCP> Thomas.Weihrich@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Thomas Weihrich) writes: > >If Commodore took over the SUN 680x0 and 386 line, it would be a pest for >all decent SUN-users: >Still worse quality with an increased incompatibility and growing lack >of support. >The mere idea makes me puke. If SUN is abandoning the -3 and -3x families, I'd petition DEC to bring out an ULTRIX release for (a defined group og configurations of) these machines. 68000's are good cousins for VAXes, and DEC support is so much nicer than SUN support. -- / Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer CMC Rockwell lars@CMC.COM