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From: moynihan_r@apollo.HP.COM (Robert Moynihan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard roumors...
Message-ID: <45ee2d75.d3a6@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 16:32:00 GMT
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Reply-To: moynihan_r@apollo.com (Robert Moynihan)
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phao172@emx.utexas.edu  (Randy M. Roberts) writes:

> I used to work daily on Apollos. There Just-Like-Real-Unix DOMAIN-IX
> SR10.1 is anything but Just-Like-Real-Unix.  I hope Apollo (Uh, er HP)
> gets on the ball and puts a real unix on the machine.  BTW AEGIS is
> being phased out in favor of DOMAIN-IX, better late than never.

Interesting.  Our SysV.3 unix environment is SVID compliant, and you say
it's not Just-Like-Real-Unix.  If it's SVID compliant, it IS real unix.
Maybe the problem is that the flavor of unix you're USED to isn't 
Just-Like-Real-Unix.  Oh well, who can say.  But if AT&T's testing
procedures say Domain/OS is real unix, it's real unix.

Oh, by the way, at SR10.n, there is no such thing as DOMAIN-IX.  There
is only Domain/OS, which can contain AEGIS, SysV.3, or BSD4.3, or any
combination you choose.  At SR10.n, unix is part of the kernal, so
the unix commands are not 'wrapped around' AEGIS.  No matter what the
salesreps of our Sometimes Uninformed Neighbors might say.

I've heard nothing about HP buying Commodore, but if they did, I'd love 
it.  I want to buy an Amiga 2000HD, and I'd love to get it at employee's
discount prices.  I was going to get a Vectra, but once you've gotten
used to a workstation, why would you ever want to use a 'mere' PC again?
(Multi-tasking is addictive.)
              

Bob Moynihan             Disclaimer: I don't speak for Apollo Systems
Apollo Systems Division              Division or for Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hewlett-Packard Co.                  I only speak for myself.