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Article #9471Re: SUG trip report
From: attcan!utzoo!henry
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1988 17:10
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1988 17:10
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>... Sun is trying to accomplish an economic restructuring of the >middle part of the computer industry by enabling multiple companies to >build binary compatible machines. Sun is not afraid of competition in >open systems, says Joy, and he goes on to say that binary compatibility >such as exists within the VAX line or in the PC and PC-clone market is the >arena in which Sun wants to compete. Considering that Sun is the company that refuses to supply hardware documentation, and that Sun source tapes omit things like the kernel memory management because it would give away how the Sun MMU works, Joy must be thinking of some other company. MIPS maybe? Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: attcan!utzoo!henry@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: SUG trip report Message-ID: <8812150652.AA19330@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 21 Dec 88 17:10:52 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 14 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 01:52:29 EST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 70, message 1 of 14