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From: mjs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Wet Dream or ...
Message-ID: <8840031@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 19:49:27 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>Right now I have to contend with bugs in Sun, MIPS, IBM (RS/6000 and PS/2
>AIX) and ISC (80386).  There is no common set of anything.  Each supports 
>things in a different way, with lots of differences in implementation and 
>sets of problems.  
>
>Sun, for example, seems to be unable to produce a working rpc.lockd.  MIPS
>just did the same basic thing with Risc/OS 4.52; 4.51's rpc.lockd worked
>fine - until we upgraded the Suns to 4.1.1.  IBM can't make it work at all 
>with the current AIX release on the RS/6000.

None of this will be any different with OSF/1.  You may be able to purchase
source from the Foundation, but each vendor will have added their own
proprietary features, and proprietary bugs.  The commonality will be a lot
less than what you have been led to believe.

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Marc Sabatella (marc@hpmonk.fc.hp.com)
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