berger@datacube.UUCP (04/07/87)
Who needs another propriatary incompatable hard to use software environment. Yeah, Unix/Xenix/Microport whatever with DOS-Merge and X-Windows! That's a winning combination and it gets people out of the Rut of being stuck with 80xx86 cpu's. Software written for the above (sans DOS) could easily be ported to Sun's, Apollo's and Vaxen. Common window system common system interface. Totally portable* at the C source level! It would be a wonderfully unified environment to create product for, and its not dominated by one company, yet is even vaster a marketplace than just DOS. * Yes I know there is no such thing as totally portable, but it would be VERY portable! Bob Berger Datacube Inc. Systems / Software Group 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 VOICE: 617-535-6644; FAX: (617) 535-5643; TWX: (710) 347-0125 UUCP: ihnp4!datacube!berger {seismo,cbosgd,cuae2,mit-eddie}!mirror!datacube!berger
berger@datacube.UUCP (04/08/87)
>I strongly suspect that my next computer will be a Macintosh II - unless >someone comes up with the equivalent of a Sun for about a third the price. > -Richard Goerwitz Have people heard; The Sun 3/50 list price just dropped from $7900 to $5000. Folks with volume discounts can get them for less than $4k. The Sun 3/50 includes: 68020 68881 FPU 4 Meg RAM with high performance MMU Ethernet i/f (Thin ethernet tranciever included) 1100 x 900 66hz Bitmap display Of course you still need disk (a large one compared to PC's) and you need low cost application software, something definatly lacking in the SUN world. Bob Berger Datacube Inc. Systems / Software Group 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960 VOICE: 617-535-6644; FAX: (617) 535-5643; TWX: (710) 347-0125 UUCP: ihnp4!datacube!berger {seismo,cbosgd,cuae2,mit-eddie}!mirror!datacube!berger
cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (04/09/87)
In article <105500005@datacube>, berger@datacube.UUCP writes: > > Who needs another propriatary incompatable hard to use software > environment. > > Yeah, Unix/Xenix/Microport whatever with DOS-Merge and X-Windows! > I agree and I believe, that IBM agrees as well They are, it is rumored, porting X-WINDOWS to AIX, and it is already known that AIX will arrive for the model 80, (probably sooner than os/2 extended). I have used AIX on the RT PC and I can not tell the difference between that environment and system V. They say that if users can't tell it isn't UNIX and applications can't tell it isn't UNIX.... Then it's UNIX. /Carl
dan@prairie.UUCP (04/09/87)
In article <659@unccvax.UUCP> cbenda@unccvax.UUCP (carl m benda) writes: > I agree and I believe, that IBM agrees as well They are, it >is rumored, porting X-WINDOWS to AIX... X runs on the RT's at the University of Wisconsin, although that took some kernel hacking because of the 4.2(ish) lack of SIGWINCH and its supporting window list. -- Dan Frank (w9nk) ARPA: dan@db.wisc.edu ATT: (608) 255-0002 (home) UUCP: ... uwvax!prairie!dan (608) 262-4196 (office) SNAILMAIL: 1802 Keyes Ave. Madison, WI 53711-2006