Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!cert!netnews.upenn.edu!gynko!rsk From: rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: New HP machines Bad News for NeXT?? Message-ID: <43578@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 21 May 91 16:30:22 GMT References: Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Organization: Cardiothoracic Imaging Research Center Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: gynko.circ.upenn.edu In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >HP-UX seems to be different enough, that pulling programs off the net >and compiling them is nontrivial. [...] HP pulled off a major >coup with the Snakes, but from what I hear their OS is a major drawback. HP-UX is gratuitously different from BSD and SYSV in so many ways that I'd rank second only to AIX in non-usability. My advice is to spend the extra $$ to buy MORE/BSD from MT Xinu, which is real Berkeley Unix plus NFS plus lots of bug fixes plus lots of FSF software. Use your HP-UX tapes and manuals as fireplace starter. ---Rsk -- ---Rsk rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu