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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Performance of 80486 based machines running Unix
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.135603.25375@crash.cts.com>
Date: 26 Jun 91 13:56:03 GMT
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bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
>In article <1991Jun24.214207.21425@engage.pko.dec.com> balson@3d.enet.dec.com (My name is...) writes:
>
>>on the open market/mail order for PC's. the only difference being that
>>micro code was added to prevent them from being used in any machine other than
>>a DEC workstation. This in my opinion, is *NOT* what open systems is all about.
>>I should be able to install any SCSI disk that I have for my PC into any 
>>workstation anad visa versa. But I cant. Because I cannot do this makes those
>>machines proprietary not matter how *OPEN* those manafactures say they are. I 
>
>This is ABSURD!!!!  What does DEC have to gain by making their drives
>unusable by "the rest of the world?"  Nobody would pay ridiculous 
>DEC prices for DEC drives for other machines anyway, but the principle
>stinks.
>
>Does anyone know if SUN does the same ??  or can a Sun drive be moved
>to another non-Sun machine ??

Sun drives can be taken from a Sun to any other machine.  It was common
practice in the company I use to work for to pull the 105 Mb drive (which is
really a Quantum P-105S (piece of crud)) and put it on a Mac when it outlived
its usefulness do to it being rather small.

     // JCA

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