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From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
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Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
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Date: 16 Apr 91 14:44:05 GMT
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In article <JIM.91Apr15115715@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes:

   non-standard object format,

I didn't know there was a standard for object formats...  unless you
define standard as "Version 7 + various hacks" or "SunOS"?

HP-UX is hardly any worse than other System V / BSD hybrids.  Remember
that all the world is not a VAX, nor a Sun3.
--
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland