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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix actuaria
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Date: 14 Dec 90 16:21:57 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.033930.2797@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>	Considering that we're selling lots of machines that VMS won't
>run on, we'd be awfully dumb to dump ULTRIX. I assume your posting must
>be a joke - the amount of resources DEC has invested in the UNIX
>marketplace should tell even the most cynical how serious DEC has
>gotten about UNIX/ULTRIX/OSF-1.

The folk-wisdom, however, has always held that DEC didn't
_want_ to produce a Unix-alike so much as it _had_ to in
order to keep from losing out on the major portion of the
OS marketplace to the point of losing VAX business with
recently-won customers.

I'm glad you've gotten serious about it, and if OSF-1 is
the F-15[**] everyone claims it is, life should get nice.

				--Blair
				  "'The folk-wisdom...'  Sheesh."

[**]  The F-15 was designed to fill a specific gap (remember
the FoxBat?), but has been 'ported' to capabilities nobody
ever thought one design could manage.  The folk-wisdom
there is that it's never failed to do something someone
asked it to do, and almost always greatly exceeded the
requirements.