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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: why no native unix??
Keywords: just asking
Message-ID: <1270@fai.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 88 18:39:13 GMT
References: <18@draci.cs.uow.oz> <3ff525ae.14df5@ulsoy.engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <3ff525ae.14df5@ulsoy.engin.umich.edu> conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe) writes:
>
>  Peter, I am curious about this, too.  Why did 
>Apollo, and from your article, Pyramid, and Sequent , to name the few
>you did, choose non-native Unix?

I didn't get in on the beginning of this, but Sequent Dynix is native
4.2 (with some 4.3 stuff) with support for their parallel hardware.  It
also includes a SysV.2 environment layer.

>  Have you ever used Aegis?  I operate in 4.2, but use Aegis and
>even V utilities all at the same time.

That's great for you, but we already have entirely too many dissimilar
versions of Unix around here, and can't afford to add complexity by
requiring our users (and administrator -- that's me!) to learn Aegis
as well.

We (still) have a couple Domain 3000's laying around -- no one wants
to use 'em, because no one wants to learn Yet Another Operating System.

The Apollo is a pretty box, and someday when they offer native Unix,
we will definitely be interested.


			Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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