Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!bbn.com!ulowell!swan!asherman From: asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: HP, OSF, etc... Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 22:32:06 GMT References: <9012210542.AA20122@adus.ecn.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@ulowell.ulowell.edu Organization: CPE: University of Lowell -- Lowell, MA Lines: 36 In-reply-to: librarian@ADUS.ECN.UIOWA.EDU's message of 21 Dec 90 05:42:51 GMT >>>>> On 21 Dec 90 05:42:51 GMT, librarian@ADUS.ECN.UIOWA.EDU (ADUS librarian) said: ADUS> WORKSTATION text follows---- ADUS> ****************************************************** ADUS> HP TO SUPPORT OSF/1 68040 DNs, BUT NOT HP 300s ADUS> Expo, Apollo users got a reprieve from obsoletion with HP's I find this kind of attitude to be sickening. Why don't people wake up and realize that HP's just kicking us in the teeth and then saying "Aren't you glad I let you live". They're mocking us by taking away one of the best development platforms ever to have been designed, and replacing with a brand new (read buggy as hell) Unix clone. What's out consolation? We're not "obsolete". Bah! The system managers here have found a solution. There's a third party company that we're getting Apollo equipment support from now, and we'll just never "upgrade" to OSF when it come along. HP: You're losing your customers... It's time to think about what you're doing! -AJS --- | asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu or asherman%cpe@swan.ulowell.edu or | | {backbone}!ulowell!ul-cpe!asherman | | "The protection of private data.... can therefore be circumvented.... but | | this, of course, is cheating." -- 'C++ P.L.' pp 137 by Bjarne Stroustrup | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- | asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu or asherman%cpe@swan.ulowell.edu or | | {backbone}!ulowell!ul-cpe!asherman | | "The protection of private data.... can therefore be circumvented.... but | | this, of course, is cheating." -- 'C++ P.L.' pp 137 by Bjarne Stroustrup | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------