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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: <1300@fai.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 18:32:15 GMT
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Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <404c3798.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu> conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe) writes:
>Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but
>if you dislike Apollo workstations so much, why do you
>have them?  (I am not being sarcastic.  I am
>really asking for the basis of the decision that resulted
>in such displeasure.)

I can't tell you without blowing my next raise.  I didn't make
the decision.  However, after it was clear that neither we nor
Apollo could make them work correctly, I dragged a couple old
Sun II's from another building and set 'em up in the same area.
The programmers liked them, and before you knew it, there was
a Sun on almost everyone's desk.  (Not the II.  They're being
retired.)

Look, you asked, ok?  I don't want to waste everyone's time
blasting Apollo in their own newsgroup.  Every product has it's
disgruntled former users.  If the local reps had provided assistance
rather than going into ignore mode, who knows?  We might have
been an Apollo house.


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