Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!tuvie!mike From: mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: The old "Classic/New Coke" trick. Keywords: HP OSF DN Domain/OS Paranoia Message-ID: <1956@tuvie> Date: 7 Nov 90 14:02:13 GMT References: Reply-To: mike@tuvie.UUCP (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) Organization: Vienna University of Technology, AUSTRIA Lines: 25 In article asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) writes: >Perhaps I'm just seeing conspiracies behind every curtain because I'm too >paranoid. Or, perhaps not. Either way, what I have to voice here has no >basis in cold hard facts, and is simply conjecture. This is my opinion >and is not (most likely) the opinon of my employer, my mother or George >"The Brocolli Man" Bush. Nor is the following my emplyer's opinion! >Then came HP's announcement that the DN line would not have OSF/1 ported to >it because it would be "obsolete" by the time OSF/1 was out (Probably true, >but not for the reasons that they are siting :). To this there was hostile >user-reaction from both camps (note that this gives both sides of the OSF/1 >debate a common cause, a major step in controling group dynamics). Then, >in the next (the most recent) issue of "Unix Today!", HP was quoted as saying >that they would be porting OSF/1 to only the DN's that had the Motorola '040 >CPU. The problem is that the availability of OSF/1 that have '40s does not help us a bit. Why would anyone want to buy upgrades for DNs. It is cheaper to buy new machines which are more powerful. For the cost of a CPU upgrade you nearly get a 425dl. AND you still have the old DNs available. Michael K. Gschwind, Institute for VLSI-Design, Vienna University of Technology mike@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at 1-2-3-4 kick the lawsuits out the door mike@vlsivie.uucp 5-6-7-8 innovate don't litigate e182202@awituw01.bitnet 9-A-B-C interfaces should be free Voice: (++43).1.58801 8144 D-E-F-O look and feel has got to go! Fax: (++43).1.569697