Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!ron From: ron@iconsys.UUCP (Ron Holt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Unix optimized for SPARC? Summary: Unix cannot be SPARCized. Message-ID: <256@iconsys.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 88 15:14:09 GMT References: <253@iconsys.UUCP> <3cf43568.d8e9@apollo.uucp> Reply-To: ron@iconsys.UUCP (Ron Holt) Organization: Icon International, Inc., Orem, Utah Lines: 21 In article <3cf43568.d8e9@apollo.uucp> gallen@diskless.UUCP (Gary Allen) writes: > >No one has called Sun or AT&T evil (although some people seem to believe >them altruistic). I disagree. That seems to be exactly the implication of many articles I have read on the net and in the press. The first issue of Unix Today! exhorts AT&T not to "go off with Sun and optimize Unix for SPARC." (p. 18). >NOBODY IS IMPARTIAL!! I agree. But the OSF wasn't founded because of potential inadvertent oversights on AT&T's part that might give them an advantage in the Unix world. I don't believe them "evil" either. That's my point. I'm trying to refute the simple-minded idea that AT&T can intentionally direct the evolution of Unix to the advantage of SPARC based machines. Enough said. -- Ron Holt UUCP: {uunet,caeco}!iconsys!ron Software Development Manager ARPANET: icon%byuadam.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Icon International, Inc. BITNET: icon%byuadam.bitnet Orem, Utah 84058 PHONE: (801) 225-6888