Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!mit-eddie!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: The old "Classic/New Coke" trick. Keywords: HP OSF DN Domain/OS Paranoia Message-ID: <1990Nov8.052156.13393@alphalpha.com> Date: 8 Nov 90 05:21:56 GMT References: Organization: asi Lines: 39 In article asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) writes: > >Perhaps I'm just seeing conspiracies behind every curtain because I'm too Yes. >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, What ever happened to the argument that it was too hard to support OSF/1 on multiple hardware platforms. After all, if the more platforms you get to switch to OSF/1, the sooner you can drop Domain/OS. >IMHO, this was an obvious attempt on HP's part to take public scrutiny off >of the fact that they were dropping Domain/OS by threatening to do >something far more damaging to the Apollo line (like drop it entirely). The problem with conspiracy theories is that they always credit far too much coordination and thought to the "conspirators". I find it much more likely that HP (HP, not Apollo, they'll always be separate in my mind) is simply out of touch with the user community. >BTW: the "Old/Classic Coke" comment in the subject reffers to what I belive > Coke intended when they introduced New Coke. I don't think that they > ever wanted to market it, they just wanted to take the sugar out of > Coke, and did so by re-introducing it as "Coke Classic" which did > not have sugar (it has corn-syrup instead). Now I hear that they've > discontinued the "New Coke" and changed "Coke Classic" back to just > Coke. Imagine that. Really. Old Coke hasn't had sugar in it for years unless the sugar market happened to be temporarily cheaper (and in some markets, for some reason the Coke made in Western Mass often had sugar in it, I don't know if it still does). -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.