Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard roumors... Message-ID: <125529@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 21:21:21 GMT References: <2837UD158339@NDSUVM1> <125372@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1568@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> <18968@ut-emx.UUCP> <45ee2d75.d3a6@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 26 In article <45ee2d75.d3a6@apollo.HP.COM> (Robert Moynihan) writes: ->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. Then, in article <45ee8549.71d0@apollo.HP.COM> (Steve Rehrauer) writes: ->I suspect it would be easier for us (HP/Apollo) to bring the price of ->our products down to ~$3K than it would be for Commodore to bring the ->features of a ~$3K Amiga up to workstation standards, at least where ->networking & available "workstationish" software are concerned. The ->new HP/Apollo DN2500, for example of a "cheap" '030 box, is right at ->~$4K without a hard-disk. Interestingly enough, the Amiga 2500 (is that serendipity or what?) can (and does) run SVID compliant SysV.3, and similarly equipped to the DN2500 (you need to add the Hi-res mono monitor and ethernet card to the Amiga and a disk to the DN2500) it prices out fairly competitivly. (and I bet Commodore's margins are better because they already have a million Amigas out) They aren't as far away as you might think. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If I were driving a Macintosh, I'd have to stop before I could turn the wheel."