Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ittc!fpb From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: OSF/1, SVR4, AIX, 4.4BSD [Was Re: Dual Universes] Message-ID: Date: 15 May 91 02:50:33 GMT Sender: news@ittc.wec.com Distribution: usa Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA. Lines: 37 I have been following the thread and more people then I care to mention have said things and I have also lost some of the thread. This is honest to goodness inquiry not a joke. My understanding is that it has basically come down to 2 'major corporate' camps : SVR4(Sun, Now HP?) vs. OSF/1 (DEC, IBM, ???) 1. I know there are more but just what is the current scorecard as for whose on whose side. Or more appropriately Who's on first What's on second... 2. Having been a user of Sun Workstations for >2 years, and also having just received 10 DECstation 5000's + a shiny new VAX running VMS. I have this inquiry. Is there somewhere on the Net I can get an 'informative' comparison to what these things are going to evolve to be. I have read trade rags ad infinitum and to me they just confuse the issue. I know that this forum has a better (or at least should) idea than they do. I mean, their combined knowledge could probably be summed up quicker than it has already taken me to write this. 3. I have been barraged by the local DRECnoids as to 'OSF/1 and MOTIF is the wave of the future' what will you do with your Suns when it arrives? My current 'unverbalized' response has been : 'Since that date is as near to, when hell freezes over, as not to matter I personaly am not overly concerned.' Should I be? -- | () () () | Frank P. Bresz | Westinghouse Electric Corporation | \ /\ / | fpb@ittc.wec.com | ITTC Simulators Department | \/ \/ | uunet!ittc!fpb | Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate. | ---------- | +1 412 733 6749 | My opinions are mine, WEC don't want 'em.