schultz@mmm.serc.3m.com (John C Schultz) (01/19/89)
We would like to add an HP 9000/340 or 350 (w its own boot disk and tape
drive) to an existing small network of SUN stations - all SUN 3
somethings.
I am looking for anyone's opinions on how well this will work. How close
is HP's UNIX to SunOS? They both have NFS so can I mount SUN disks on the
HP and vice-versa. We use X windows on our SUNs, presumably the same
software, e.g. twm, emacs, xgdb will work on HPs?
The only difficulty I can see is that complex software such as the GNU
code tends to require different flags to compile/link as compared to SUN
systems.
Could people comment on their experiences? This may be of general
interest since it seems the HP 9000/340 is beating SUN on price/performance.
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