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Article #1484Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open?
From: Jay Maynard
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:57
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:57
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In article <BuCytz.1IG@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>The last open system I used actively was a VAX 750; the hardware was
>documented sufficiently well that one could write operating system code
>for it (without having to beg, grovel, sign non-disclosure agreements,
>bribe your vendor, sue your vendor, or sell your soul to the devil).
There are folks who will want to skin me for this, but there's a company
building open systems by this definition: IBM. The System/3x0 hardware is
documented completely, even pedantically, in the Principles of Operation
books. There are even cloners who work from nothing but those books.
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
"Keep in mind that Amateur Radio As We Know It Today will cease to exist
at midnight tonight." -- Dave Newkirk, WJ1Z
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!bcm!lib!oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu!jmaynard From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: net.views -- which vendor is the most open? Message-ID: <7286@lib.tmc.edu> Date: 10 Sep 1992 16:57:37 GMT References: <BuBx63.H64@vcd.hp.com> <1992Sep10.024324.17106@decuac.dec.com> <BuCytz.1IG@world.std.com> Sender: usenet@lib.tmc.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu