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From: kempf@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Jim Kempf)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <1292@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 88 23:57:17 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <442@pcrat.UUCP>, rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
> 
> I gave up Byte years ago.  Pournelle should stick to SF.  Why would
> you want to put *Anything* into ROM (on a PC). Stability? Yeh... we got it ...
> the bugs are stable, they're in ROM.

Actually, Hewlett-Packard manufactures a luggable which has Unix and
lots of the Unix tools in ROM. The advantage is that you don't need a
hefty chunk of disc space to hold them. The luggable used to be called
the Integral PC, since it has an integrated Thinkjet printer, but I
think they renamed it when it was retargetted to the firmware development
market. It was a nice machine, at the time, the smallest Unix box available.
Now, the AT clones, Atari ST and Amiga outclass it for general purpose
computing.

I agree with your opinion on Pournelle and Byte, though.


		Jim Kempf	kempf@hplabs.hp.com

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