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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Sun != Open Archtecture
Message-ID: <3105@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 91 13:15:07 GMT
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In article <37681@cup.portal.com> johnm@cup.portal.com (John - Madison) writes:

| Sun's "all the wood behind one arrow" slogan is just a recognition that
| they burned all the other ones.

  I've had that discussion with Sun people on a number of topics, most
recently OpenLook vs. MOTIF. I told them that it didn't matter how much
wood was behind the arrowhead if they missed the target. I assume that
this is a matter of religious belief to some highly placed person at
Sun, since they have read the market correctly on a lot of other things.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.