Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!fai!ronc
From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: why no native unix??
Keywords: just asking
Message-ID: <1304@fai.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 23:52:18 GMT
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Reply-To: ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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In article <404beb83.b263@hi-csc.UUCP> giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus) writes:
>I have great news.  You don't have to learn another operating system
>to use the Apollos.  As mentioned here before, you can not load up
>Aegis at all if you do not want to.

Elsewhere in this newsgroup are other folks complaining that Apollo has
made their "native" unix "better" in strange ways.  No thanks.

>*** I personally would load up the Aegis, though.  Not because the
>DOMAIN/OS UNIX is incomplete, but because I don't see are reason
>to deny myself all the extra tools Aegis provides the UNIX user.

This defeats the purpose:  Consistency of interface is a key issue.
For exactly the same reason, we are not considering the purchase
of the X/News merge from Sun.  News might be wonderful, but it only
works on a Sun.

In a heterogeneous computing environment, non-standard "improvements"
by *any* one computer manufacturer is the ENEMY, no matter how nice they
might be.  Don't get me wrong, as you pointed out, everyone does it.
It's only a matter of degree.  But at some point one has to say "I
don't have time to deal with this".  We reached that point with the
Domain 3000.

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