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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Message-ID: <26420@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 14 Jan 89 06:30:10 GMT
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<85330@sun.uucp>, by khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering):
> 2)	Ultrix is propritary, and differs from the MIPS OS offerings
> 	considerably. If you like Ultrix on your VAX, perhaps
> 	you will like it on your MIPS box. But if you come from
> 	any other unix environment it is quite a change.

I beg to differ with the gentleman from Sun.  I use both Ultrix and
SunOS, and while I usually prefer Sun workstations to timeshared VAXen
or even VAXstations, I don't find Ultrix and SunOS to be as different
from each other as either is from, say, System V or HP-UX, or even a
nominally bsd-flavored Apollo Domain/IX (SR9.x -- I haven't used
SR10.x).

Ultrix is proprietary, but that's a red herring.  SunOS is also
proprietary.  (I was going to follow the first sentence with "So is
SunOS", then realized that I didn't mean that SunOS is a red herring,
regardless of what Sun's competitors may want the market to believe :))

Mike Khaw
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