Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!vax.cs.pitt.edu!jonathan From: jonathan@cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Snake Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 16:10:35 GMT References: <69465@brunix.UUCP> <3284@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@pitt.UUCP Organization: University of Pittsburgh Computer Science Lines: 21 In-reply-to: spot@CS.CMU.EDU's message of 22 Mar 91 15:39:58 GMT spot@CS.CMU.EDU (Scott Draves) writes: I don't know, but it will probably run HP-UX like all its predecessors. Now, whether or not you call that unix is another question... :) But seriously, HP-UX is a rather dusty, but reliable version of SysV. I'd live with it to get that much CPU. Yep, HP-UX and toward the end of the year, OSF/1. HP-UX is a much-enhanced BSD kernel with a System V environment above. Rather spartan in BSD system calls and utilities, apparently. When will they be available in volume, ie, when does it become real? Until then, it's just a marketdroid scheme to hurt the competition and grab publicity. My, aren't we cynical? Not believing the vendors are we? What'll it be next, the government? ;-) According to HP, over 1,000 systems have apparently shipped, and availability is either now or near-term (no latter than May, I belive) for all the goods. Not bad.