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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: HP 9000/700s not running Domain/OS
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Date: 3 Apr 91 16:32:21 GMT
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In article <9104011930.AA04990@hera.wri.com> leland@DRAGONFLY.WRI.COM writes:
>in HPs clothing. In addition, Domain/OS 10.3 has a predefined
>macro __ISP_PA_RISC which is always 0.

A few weeks back before the news about 9000/700 running lose, there is an
article in Unix Today! mentioned about the Snake box can run Domain/OS on top
of HP-UX (emulation?) with expected slower performance.

I share the same feeling of being abandoned by HP. I have yet to take the OSF
seminar to see how much it can offer as an alternative OS. Based on the
article in ADUS Ring (Vol 5 No 1) titled "OS and OSF News", OSF/1 still has
way to go before replacing majority of Domain/OS functionalities. And the sad
part is, HPollo doesn't seem to be interested to push OSF to add Domain/OS
specific functionalities to OSF/?. For example, when asked about command
similar to 'crp', the answer is "its not standard and "better isn't better,
the standard is better" - that's the big lesson of Apollo, right?)...