Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!haven!mimsy!mojo!SYSMGR@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: P1754 Message-ID: <0093FFDC.D0EC46E0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> Date: 20 Nov 90 15:42:23 GMT References: <1990Nov16.225515.494@zoo.toronto.edu>, Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney) Organization: The U. of MD, CP, CAD lab Lines: 30 In article , roland@CS.Stanford.EDU (Roland Conybeare) writes: >P1754 means that Sun will no longer receive licensing fees for SPARC, and will >lose control over its evolution. Hum. Control how? They'll still have the Sun OS to sell. This is not an unsubstantial thing (so long as they don't get greedy about it). >I believe Sun hopes to enlarge the market for SPARC machines by inviting >competition (this seems like an extraordinary action to me!). It's working well so far, since now we have Cheap SPARCs, Multi-processor SPARCs, high-performance SPARCs (real soon now), and SPARC in a Box! (Portable SPARC). >Sun wins if it keeps market share & SPARCs become commonplace. On the other >hand Sun may lose to superior manufacturing. Sun doesn't sell manufacturing. They sell workstations, and (so far as my limited knowledge goes) buy their CPUs and some of the other stuff from other manufacturers. >Interesting times.. Ain't it tho? The inital blurb I read about the SparcStation II indicates it has better (yah, better) graphics performance than equilivently configured DECstation 5000es. Fasten your seat belts because round 3 starts in January. Doug Mohney, Operations Manager, CAD Lab/ME, Univ. of Maryland College Park * Why do VMS system managers get more sleep and less ulcers than their * * UNIX(TM) counterparts, despite the sophistication of UNIX? *