Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!softway!chris
From: chris@softway.oz (Chris Maltby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MAC 88000
Summary: What is UNIX exactly?
Keywords: 88000 SPARC Sun Apple Mac Macintosh UNIX
Message-ID: <441@softway.oz>
Date: 18 Jul 88 07:30:56 GMT
References: <261@hodge.UUCP> <370STORKEL@RICE> <607@riddle.UUCP>
Organization: Softway Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
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In article <607@riddle.UUCP> domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
> Me, I'd love to see MacSPARC, as it would add more momentum to the
> bandwagon that's promoting SPARC as a standard UN*X hardware architecture.
> If that bandwaggon doesn't roll, we'll have another five years of having to
> accommodate multiple architectures for no good reason, and, boy, am I
> tired of doing that after the last ten years.  But I fear it won't happen.

Then UNIX would be another VMS... A major reason you can buy your UNIX
computer so cheaply is that there is competition between hardware
and application software builders because they don't have to design
YAPOS (yet another proprietary operating system) or invest heaps in
porting the application to YAPOS. A hardware standard would leave us
locked in with that. Roll on IBM - I want to standardise on the 360
(actually 1401) architecture - its RISC and CISC together!