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From: bakken@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: obsolete Sequent software
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Date: 24 Feb 91 05:46:31 GMT
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In article <6055@oasys.dt.navy.mil> curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch) writes:
>In comp.sys.sequent, gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend) writes:
>>I have to second R. B. Jim's comments about Sequent software.  It's pitiful.
>
>I'm real tired of seeing this stuff.  I happen to thing that Sequent
>has done a great job on software.  I agree, it's not leading edge stuff,
>but it works, and it provides all the features I need.
...
>I word it this way:
>	   Rock-solid hardware, Rock-solid software.

Do you use NFS?  Or do you try to port PD/GNU software to DYNIX?
Just wondering...

I suspect that if you developed software that had to be portable
across Unix implementations or did a lot of Unix systems programming
you would feel quite differently.  And such portability and 
interoperability is a main reason many people use Unix.

But, hey, it all depends what you want your Sequent for.  Ours
was bought for a cycle server for our undergraduate program,
and for that it does an outstanding job.  It would probably
be a reasonable if not excellent machine for a parallel database
engine.  But not for the development and distribution of software.
 
>Sun offers leading edge software, and they have to pay the price
>for doing that.  Every few months I see another article like this:
>
>In comp.security.announce, cert-advisory-request@CERT.SEI.CMU.EDU writes:
>>
>>CA-91:01                       CERT Advisory
[etc.]

If people really want to be more risk free and have their hands held
they can get VMS...

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