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From: dennis@nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: useless snakes (was Re: DM Like Editor written for X)
Message-ID: <dennis.670278456@woodstock>
Date: 29 Mar 91 20:27:36 GMT
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I've been wanting an excuse to get this off my chest...

krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
> I explain that the latest HP/Apollo hardware will not run Domain/OS (not
> even SR11), only HP-UX and OSF so that buying new Apollo gear will not help the
> situation.

So HP announced their hot new machines and users came around to ask
about them -- and I said, "You can't use it."  The word "incredulous"
pretty much describes my response to HP's cutting off the old Apollo
customers this way.

We early Apollo users were willing to live and grow with Apollo instead
of buying some other Unix box because Apollo was doing the long-range,
advanced networking technology right.  And we knew it was just a matter
of time until we could have it all.  So who gets the spiffy new RISC
technology first?  The customers that all along have been most
interested in the best technology available?  Nope.  Well, then, when
*can* we have it?  Only when we're willing to give up on Domain/OS for a
pig in poke.

So until we switch to OSF in a few years when it's stable and usable, HP
won't be selling us any of their RISC machines.  If there are still
Apollo users then.

Not smart.

   Dennis Cottel, dennis@NOSC.MIL, (619) 553-1645  
   Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152