From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 27 07:19:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02172 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02164 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mestery@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15694; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:18:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma014028; Tue, 27 Jan 98 09:11:04 -0600 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA23634; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:11:03 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:11:03 -0600 (CST) From: Kyle Mestery To: Mark Mayo cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq bought Digital :(. In-Reply-To: <19980127095839.14234@vmunix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Mark Mayo wrote: > I hate it when the best technologies loose.. I'm also curious to see > what will become of Digital UNIX, which has always been one of my > favorite of the commercial Unix's. Compaq appears to be very anti-UNIX, > and I really doubt they're going to want to continue to fund development > on what they see as a dead-product.. Sigh. > There was a press release earlier last week that said Digital is porting Digital UNIX to the Merced chip and the IA-64 architecture. But of course, this was before Compaq bought them. Strange, but last year it was HP-UX porting to IA-64, then SCO, Digital UNIX, and Solaris also. Seems Intel is pushing everyone around these days. Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group "Keep honking, I'm reloading." "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, how come they're made of meat?"