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From: pdg@draci.cs.uow.oz (Peter Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: why no native unix??
Keywords: just asking
Message-ID: <18@draci.cs.uow.oz>
Date: 28 Nov 88 21:40:55 GMT
Organization: University of Wollongong
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	After reading the recent spate of items about Apollo's
implementation of unix under Aegis (and having used it slightly)
it seems a good time to ask a question that has been bugging
me for some time.

	Why has Apollo decided to continue to try to offer Aegis and Unix
together rather than simply offer the alternative of a native unix 
port to the Apollo workstations? That way they could keep the
Aegis community happy until they die or switch to unix and at the same
time offer a complete unix system to those people (like me) who
prefer it.

	As a unix user i can honestly say that in my opinion there
is no substitute for a native implementation of unix. Here we run
Pyramids (simulated sys V environment), Sequent (simulated sys V)
and Apollo's (simulated sys V and BSD). These three vendors have had
differing degrees of success in offering multi-universe machines.
But in general I still prefer machines that offer a native single
universe implementation of unix, whether it be sys V or BSD.

	Please do not take this as Apollo bashing. I would simply
like to know why the concept of a native port was rejected.

pdg

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