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From: bakken@hrsw2.UUCP (David E. Bakken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HEY COMMODORE SALES!  Re: AMIX?
Message-ID: <77@hrsw2.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 88 15:41:15 GMT
References: <466@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <863@gethen.UUCP> <391@brambo.UUCP> <5084@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Organization: Boeing Commercial Aircraft Co., Seattle, Wa.
Lines: 27
Keywords: customer speaks about brain dead software choice
Summary: A2500UX may not be pure  SysV!!??!!

In article <5084@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>                          *******************
> 			 *SysV not welcome.*
> 			     [etc.]
> 			 *SysV not welcome.*
>                          *******************
> 
> Now?  Those are the paying customers speaking guys, and they are NOT
> kidding around, and that is NOT an isolated opinion.  Think it
> through, please?  It's your corporate survival, and my IRA retirement
> plan.  Do it right, OK?

Please note that the details we have heard about the A2500UX are for
European markets, where they demand "pure" SysV.  It is entirely
conceivable to me that C= could offer some sort of hybrid or even a
Berkley kernel for the US market.  I'm sure C= is well aware of the North 
American sentiments as expressed by Kent and others, and they have capable 
people in both  sales and engineering (their advertising budget is
another story, but I know they have been fighting a war against
bankrupcy, and making good progress lately).  

I hope they offer SLIP with the machine, personally.
-- 
Dave Bakken   Boeing Commercial Airplanes		(206) 277-2571
uw-beaver!apcisea!hrsw2!bakken
Disclaimer: These are my own views, not those of my employers.  Don't
let them deter you from buying the 747 you've been saving hard for.