arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) (01/29/91)
In article <38509@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >For a multi-billion dollar per year company like Apple attempting to pull the >wool over everyone's eyes in 1991 with a "new, improved" product that's really >over 8 years old is the epitome of audacity and arrogance. Indeed. Apple and A/UX are exactly analogous to DEC and Ultrix and to IBM and AIX. All large companies, all with badly outdated and/or badly broken, and/or muchly enhanced-in-a-proprietary-fashion versions of Unix. There's a rather obvious pattern here. The compannies with large investments in proprietary operating systems are into Unix and open systems only in a token fashion. As a result, they inevitably do a lousy job of it, no matter *how* much time, effort, or money they invest in their Unix product, because when it comes down to it, they all just wish Unix would go away. On the other hand, the companies that only do Unix, like Sun, Pyramid, Sequent, ISC, and so on, have good to excellent Unix offerings. Me, I'd take a sparc station over almost anything, any day. -- Arnold Robbins -- The Basement Computer | Laundry increases Internet: arnold@skeeve.ATL.GA.US | exponentially in the UUCP: { gatech, emory }!skeeve!arnold | number of children. Bitnet: Forget it. Get on a real network. | -- Miriam Robbins
craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell) (02/15/91)
In article <740@skeeve.UUCP> arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) writes: >On the other hand, the companies that only do Unix, like Sun, Pyramid, Sequent, >ISC, and so on, have good to excellent Unix offerings. Sniff!!! Forgotten again...... (See company name :-)) >Arnold Robbins -- The Basement Computer | Laundry increases craig