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From: rwilkie@APOLLO.COM (Richard Wilkie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: HP 9000/700s not running Domain/OS
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Date: 4 Apr 91 12:11:58 GMT
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Jinfu,

Just to correct a misunderstanding before it becomes a larger problem.
Domain/OS will NOT run on top of HP-UX in any way. Domain/OS will NOT
run on the Series 700 machines.

Also, I should point out that we are pushing (as much as possible) of 
Domain functions into both our OSF offering and the OSF standard. The DCE
is a good example, DSEE, DDE and DPAK are also planned for our OSF. We in
Chelmsford are very proud of many of the Domain advances and want to see 
them evolve into common functions. We are working to make this happen.

rich wilkie

	 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?)...