GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim) (07/03/89)
Hi,
I just found out that "wd ~com" doesn't work no more on SR10.
It's now "wd ~/com".
*I* believe:
Backslash was eliminated as a metachar 'cos Unix (Bourne, C and Korn
shells) uses the backslash in the same way /com/sh uses the <at> (@) sign.
Now /com/sh users need a '/' between ~ and the next component because
C and Korn shell resolve ~foo to the home directory of foo.
Furthermore SR10 is case-sensitive because Unix has been case-sensitive
all along.
I am beginning to wonder if Apollo Inc is removing the Aegis shell
bit by bit. Can someone from Apollo.com gives us more details on the long
term direction of HP/Apollo?
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singapore 0513.weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) (07/06/89)
> I am beginning to wonder if Apollo Inc is removing the Aegis shell > bit by bit. Can someone from Apollo.com gives us more details on the long > term direction of HP/Apollo? I'm sure someone at Apollo will answer but you don't really need an official answer to this question to clearly understand HP/Apollo's direction, at least at a high level. Many technical details have not been announced. HP's non-Apollo workstations will not run Aegis (maybe in the lab for fun, but not for the public). Apollo and HP want their machines to run the same operating system. Neither party really wants to be burdened with marketing a totally new operating system at this point. All that leaves is UNIX. In the HP/Apollo case, high level officials at both companies have voiced strong support for the OSF direction. OSF/1 and OSF/2 in all likelihood will be their major integration OS platform. Apollo is already known to be doing much work in Motif-based interfaces. HP is certainly not standing still either. UNIX. You can love it or hate it but every vendor can spell it and port it. And its better than IBM's SAA OSs (too numerous to count). So it's going to be here a long time. Apollo will support Aegis for a long time (possibly five years since they can't even get many of their own people off it) but they definitely are pushing customers and development efforts towards portable, UNIX based software. -- Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc., USENET: ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner (407) 738-2087