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From: thompson@PAN.SSEC.HONEYWELL.COM (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re: UNIX Today! article
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Date: 20 Jun 91 21:58:12 GMT
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> Did you see what was said in UNIX Today!, May 27th 1991 page 76
> Column 3 near the bottom?  And I quote:
> 
> ... HP consulted with Apollo users about running
> DomainOS on the new 700 series by late 1992 or 1993 vs. porting OSF/1
> to the workstations by the end of 1991.  They advised HP to port
> OSF/1, he said."
> 
> What!  What Apollo user's where?  What corner of the universe did they
> find these dorks in?  How much did they pay them to say this?  I
> suggest that we do an informal poll.  If HP had come and asked you the
> question as posed above, how would you have responded?  OSF or
> DOMAIN/OS?  
Well, we weren't asked, so we aren't the dorks that answered that, but,
given the 2 choices listed, I'd probably have answered the way the marketing
weenies intended.  Look at the options (I assume these Qs were asked in 
early 1991 (maybe late 1990)) --
    1) You can have no new box for 2 or 3 years.  At that time, 
       if you and we are still in business, and we don't change our
       mind, you can have Domain/OS.
    2) You can have a new box with a crippled O/S and limited 
       interoperability in 1 year.
Now, out of those "choices", I'd pick (2).  By the same token, if I
were asked whether I wanted to be shot in the head, or slowly have my
skin removed with a dull butterknife, and then be slow-basted over a
set of coals, I'd probably pick the head wound.  I wouldn't enjoy it,
and I'd ask for alternatives, but....
 
> Count me in the DOMAIN/OS camp.  I'll accept a tally by mail, and
> post the results to minimize traffic on this board.
Don't count me.  That's basically what I would have had to tell the
survey people.  (Tell me, do you still beat your spouse?)


BTW: I know you asked for minimized traffic, but I figured this needed
to be said to the whole net.


-- jt --
John Thompson
Honeywell, SSEC
Plymouth, MN  55441
thompson@pan.ssec.honeywell.com

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