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From: aledm@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk (Aled Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP-UX flame
Message-ID: <455@cvaxa.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 1 May 88 15:19:59 GMT
Organization: School of Cognitive Sciences, Univ of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Keywords: hp9000/300 hp-ux

We've just installed HP-UX release 6 on our network (13 x hp9000/320s),
and I've been reading the upgraded manual pages, looking for new features.
Wow - it looks good, here we are "wait3" - and over there, "SIGSTOP",
"SIGTSTP", "SIGCONT".... at last, HP-UX looks *useable*.  They've put
back all those things they took out when they had to make it look like
System V.

It was only when I read the small print that I saw the caveats "Series
300/500: $FEATURE is not supported" :-(

In an environment of Suns, Vaxen, other BSD machines, porting code to
the Bobcats is a real nightmare.  What can I do?

Come on HP - why spoil it, why not have the *same* system across all your
machines?  [Oops, I mean the better one, too :-)]  I assume the reason that
the 300 and 800 manuals are merged is to get us to buy 800s!

Aled Morris
systems programmer

p.s. have HP heard about "rdump"?

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