Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: what's wrong with microVax II? Message-ID: <2000021@ccvaxa> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 17:43:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2000021 Posted: Tue Aug 20 17:43:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:44:06 EDT Lines: 27 Nf-ID: #N:ccvaxa:2000021:000:1214 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Aug 20 16:43:00 1985 According to Electronics, DEC has stopped shipping microVax IIs with Ultrix because of an unspecified problem with the operating system. Are there any of you out there who know what the problem is? The article was interesting on a number of fronts. Apparently a large factor in pushing Ultrix out the door at first ship was a large GM RFQ for Unix-based workstations. According to the article, the mVax II was disqualified on that bid because it was not "Unix-based" but was optimized for VMS and had Ultrix grafted on. This seemed somewhat curious, since Apollo was one of the qualifying bidders, and their Unix is also an alternative, rather than principal, operating system offering (though Aegis may be closer to Unix than VMS). I wonder how GM defined "Unix-based." -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece [Disclaimer: it's not impossible that Gould bid on that GM contract; if so, this should not be construed as a request for information that bidders shouldn't be allowed to hear or as carping at the competition, but rather as the idle curiosity of a Unix person in no way representing himself as an official manifestation of Gould Electronics Computer Systems Division...]