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From: mishkin@apollo.HP.COM (Nathaniel Mishkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: OSF/1 on DNxxxx
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.100153@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 90 15:01:00 GMT
References: <9011071431.AA20115@richter.mit.edu> <4ddecd70.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com>
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In article <4ddecd70.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com>, chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes:
>Just a comment, OSF/1 won't run on Sun machines, unless miracle happens
>or something strikes Scott Neely (sp?).

Neither will (if I'm to believe UNIX Today!) Sun's release of System
V Release 4 (the merge of Sun OS and System V, I guess) EVER run on Sun-3's
or Sun-386i's.  Sun has done a fine job with their Sparcstations, but
apparently HP isn't the only vendor not promising all software upgrades
on all platforms.

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                    -- Nat Mishkin
                       Cooperative Object Computing Operation
                       Hewlett-Packard Company
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