Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: O'pain Software Foundation: (2) Why is it better than AT&T? Keywords: OSF, AT&T, standards, competition Message-ID: <360@mipseast.mips.COM> Date: 27 May 88 17:54:02 GMT References: <24369@pyramid.pyramid.com> <10978@steinmetz.ge.com> <5085@nsc.nsc.com> <54544@sun.uucp> Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 21 In article <54544@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >In response to Glenn Weinberg: >> (Now, AT&T and probably Sun will deny that a SPARC-only >> ABI was ever their intention, but if you believe that, I too have >> a bridge to sell you.) >Well, I believe it, but then I have the disadvantage of working at Sun and >being too close to the facts; if you're coming from the outside, you can >believe or disbelieve all sorts of things without having the facts get in the >way. ...Or maybe there was some marketing decision they felt was too poisonous for you techies to hear. At last year's UNIX Expo in New York, a representative of Sun Home Office Marketing presented the notion, in a seminar on "Big Iron on Wall Street", that if the vendors of minisupers would only drop their proprietary hardware and use SPARC, they'd be able to jump on "the ABI, the only source of shrink-wrapped UNIX software". Seems pretty explicit to me. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613