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From: gerard@tscs.uucp (Stephen M. Gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.135651.486@tscs.uucp>
Date: 5 Jan 91 13:56:51 GMT
References: <36911@cup.portal.com> <5089@trantor.harris-atd.com> <1990Dec19.024945.12335@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1990Dec28.224236.5163@erbe.se>
Reply-To: gerard@tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard)
Organization: Total Support Computer Systems, Tampa, Florida
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In article <1990Dec28.224236.5163@erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes:
>In article <1990Dec19.024945.12335@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU> root@lingua.cltr.uq.OZ.AU (Hulk Hogan) writes:
>
>>It was funny how at the SPARCstation 2 announcement, the speaker said
>>how Sun was a single OS, single architecture (SPARC) company.  Yeah,
>>right. Funny how our 386i and 3/60 don't run the same binaries...
>
>Heh. Remeber the good 'ole days when Sun told you that a company that
>did offer only one architecture just wanted to lock customers in? Funny
>how fast things change...

From what I have heard 90% of Sun's business is SPARC.  I doubt that any
of us could afford to buy any other architecture from them unless the
government starts subsidizing manufacturer's to produce architectures
that the market place does not want to buy.

Sun tried to continue the 680X0 product line with the 3/80 and tried to
enter the 80X86 product line with the 386i.  They did their part, it was
us consumers who failed to maintain Sun's multi-architecture support
by not purchasing sufficient quantities of their newer non-SPARC machines
for them to justify making them.

Just my 2 cents...

-Steve

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