Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!nuug!sigyn.idt.unit.no!ugle.unit.no!hanche From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: OSF/1 on DNxxxx Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 90 19:27:48 GMT References: <9011051542.AA25070@pan.ssec.honeywell.com> <9011051236.aa24591@concour.cs.concordia.ca> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: goldfish@CONCOUR.CS.CONCORDIA.CA's message of 5 Nov 90 18:36:10 GMT In article <9011051236.aa24591@concour.cs.concordia.ca> goldfish@CONCOUR.CS.CONCORDIA.CA (-- Paul Goldsmith) writes: [...no he didn't write it -- its a quote of a quote...] | > OSF/1 on Domain/OS | > | > HP will offer OSF/1 on its Motorola 68040-based Domain/OS workstations. [...] | > As a result of this decision, HP Apollo Series 3500, 3550 and 4500 | > personal workstations users, who choose to purchase a CPU board upgrade | > based on the Motorola 68040 microprocessor, can run the OSF/1 operating | > system on their upgraded CPU. Hmm, I had been led to believe that OSF/1 would be for all HPollos, 68020 and up. But evidently they want to force us into the 68040 upgrade, which last time I looked, cost more than a whole new Sun SLC?? Someone please tell me I got this wrong... - Harald Hanche-Olsen Division of Mathematical Sciences The Norwegian Institute of Technology N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY