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From: joshua@athertn.Atherton.COM (Sleaze Hack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: why no native unix??
Keywords: just asking
Message-ID: <259@olive.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 21 Dec 88 22:01:00 GMT
References: <18@draci.cs.uow.oz> <3ff525ae.14df5@ulsoy.engin.umich.edu> <1270@fai.UUCP> <404beb83.b263@hi-csc.UUCP> <1304@fai.UUCP>
Reply-To: joshua@olive.UUCP (Sleaze Hack)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1304@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.fai.com (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
>In a heterogeneous computing environment, non-standard "improvements"
>by *any* one computer manufacturer is the ENEMY, no matter how nice they
>might be. 

I hope Apollo is paying attention to this.  It is very true.

Remember HP's UNIX slogans:
STANDARD IS BETTER THAN BETTER!   and   BUG FOR BUG COMPATIBLE.

I'm not connected to HP in any way, but these slogans are the only way to
go in terms of UNIX.

Josh
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