[mod.computers.workstations] HP-UX present and future

daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (The devil himself) (01/22/86)

> HP is apparently going to provide TCP/IP with HP-UX
> within the next few months.
> Yuval Tamir <tamir@locus.ucla.edu>, <ucla-cs!tamir>

        When I talked to H/P a few weeks ago they said they had the
TCP/IP code working and had originally planned on releasing it
sometime around April '86.  But they also told me that there was a
decision *not* to release TCP/IP until sometime near the end of '86
when the rest of the networking package was ready.

        This seemed amazingly stupid to me, so I asked the
salespeople if they were really sure what they were telling me was
correct.  They insisted it was.  Sounds to me like H/P is making a
big mistake and is getting left more and more in the dust.
-- 
Roy Smith <allegra!phri!roy>
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016