Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!lll-winken!unixhub!shelby!neon!torrie From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: SVR4 vs OSF/1 (Was Re: A3000UX competition) Message-ID: <1990Dec7.201504.11469@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 90 20:15:04 GMT References: <2346@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 42 mwm@fenris.relay.pa.dec.com (Mike (My Watch Has Windows) Meyer) writes: >Besides IBM, HP, Hitachi and Groupe Bull have all committed to >shipping OSF1 based products. Nixdorf, Encore, Intel & Intergraph have >also announced OSF1 products. (gee, all but the last three are OSF >founders, and OSF1 is heavily based on the Encore Mach product...) >Also, watch out for ANDF. If it delivers on it's promises, it'll trump >ABI, and make shrink-wrap software for OSF platforms easier than >shrink-wrap softare for MSDOS platforms. This brings to mind another interesting discussion, namely the technical superiority of OSF/1 to SVR4. *** Putting flame suit on *** In my humble opinion, you can characterise the two opposing Unix versions as follows: 1. SVR4 - a conglomeration and accumulation of every hacky thing done to Unix since its inception. 2. OSF/1 - throwing out all the hacky stuff and instead choosing the technically superior solution to every problem. Just take a look at the things that OSF have chosen, vs what SVR4 will have... for example, the multiprocessor Mach kernel, the HP/Apollo networking stuff (vs what many people call "brain-damaged" NFS), the Application Neutral Distribution Format, etc. It seems ironic to me that Amiga users (known for rejecting old existing standards, and instead taking the superior solution) are touting the greatness of SVR4 (as opposed to Mach, for example, which forms the basis of OSF/1)... *** Taking flame suit off *** -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu Today's maxim: All socialists are failed capitalists