Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!nic.MR.NET!shamash!nis!ems!pwcs!dennisg From: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: SysVR4? Message-ID: <5971@pwcs.StPaul.GOV> Date: 23 Sep 88 14:45:52 GMT References: <856@galaxy> <40416@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: dennisg@pwcs.StPaul.GOV (Dennis Grittner) Organization: City of Saint Paul, Dept. of Public Works Lines: 40 In article <40416@pyramid.pyramid.com> csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: >[Mandatory disclaimer: What follows are my very own personal opionions. I have >neither the authority nor the knowledge to represent Pyramid Technology Corpo- >ration on any of the following issues. My comments are *not* based on inside >knowledge of anything going on at Pyramid; just my own observations based on >12 years of experience in the computer industry, and five years with UNIX.] Thanks Carl, I appreciate your comments - even if ( and especially if ) they are YOUR comments. AS the current President of PUG ( realize that I speak for myself NOT for PUG ) I have some feelings and insight into the whole patchwork Unix matter... First, IBM, Dec, HP, etc aren't throwing money at Unix because they think it is unimportant - quite the opposite. Basing an OSF Unix on AIX would ( will ) be yapog ( Yet Another Piece of Garbage ) for all the computer world to use. HOpefully OSF and ATT/SUn and whoever else can work something out and create a belnd of good ideas AND good performance that will help all of us in a heterogenous Unix environment. Pyramid OSx has been good because they have addressed a lot of performance and other problems in Unix relatively well. I think that Pyramids recent concentration on being a network database/compute server is every good as this fits the whole world of distributed ( front-end /back-end ) processing. I agree Carl, when would anybody expect anything good from AT&T - or for that matter from IBM and Dec?? " Save us all - here come our saviors"! -- Dennis Grittner City of Saint Paul, Minnesota (612) 298-4402 Room 700, 25 W. 4th St. 55102 "Let's just put Ollie, Ronnie, and George in jail!"