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Unix Review review of Alpha/OSF

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From: Rob Young
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:55
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Anyone catch the review of Alpha/OSF by the editor of Unix Review in the
February issue?  Basically, (and I am writing this from memory) he states that
he talked to a number of ISV's at Comdex and said that there are only 50-100
applications available for OSF/1.  His reasoning for so few applications (much
less than the stated numbers published by DEC) was that the machines were in
"kernel debug" and DEC was scrambling sending field service people hither and
tither.  I read nothing like that in several newsgroups here.  That bothers me. 
Then of course he goes on to give a glowing review of Sun's rollout at the same
Comdex.  

My question, are Alpha/OSF platformas having kernel debug problems OR (more
hideously) is this just a way biased review OR somewhere in between?

					Rob

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