Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!haroldt From: haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Fwd: Hewlett-Packard - Sun Microsystems Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 91 22:45:21 GMT References: Sender: news@yunexus.YorkU.CA Organization: York Computing Services Lines: 49 In-reply-to: dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 25 Feb 91 18:43:23 GMT In article dc4f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Crimmins) writes: > this is pinched from the dow jones newswire. notice any workstation > vendors of interest missing from this list? > > --dan. Do you mean Digital Equipment? Or perhaps IBM? Perhaps (who make the Cray anyway?) ... oh ya, you did say 'workstation'. Does that exclude all the 386's running version of Unix (or IBM's AIX). How about Apollos or Mips? There is, of course, NeXt. I assume that was the answer you were looking for, but, I don't quite get the point. > REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -DJ- Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems > Inc. said they signed a joint software development agreement with the > goal of allowing easy application interoperability on high-volume computers > in the 1990s. Shame, does this mean that HP is going to make all thier machines SysV as well? Thanks, but I'd rather follow Next and Digital (and OSF) with Mach and OSF1. > In a joint press release, the companies said that as a result of the > agreement, users will be able to integrate data from systems made by > different vendors located on one or more networks. I thought we did that already? :) > Sun and Hewlett-Packard said they are undertaking several steps that > will lead to creation of a common software environment that will be broadly > available through licensing. Yet another version of Unix (sysV based). > UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories Inc., > ONC is a trademark ofn Microsystems and NCS is a trademark of National > Computer Systems Inc. > 1:10 PM -- ====================================================================== === Harold Tomlinson === == Computing and Communications Services == = YORK UNIVERSITY = = haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca = = 416- 736-5257-33802 = ====================================================================== Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com