From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 27 06:55:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27763 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 06:55:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27757 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 06:55:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29233; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:58:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980127095839.14234@vmunix.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:58:39 -0500 From: Mark Mayo To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq bought Digital :(. References: <19980127144226.19711.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980127144226.19711.rocketmail@send1b.yahoomail.com>; from Pedro Giffuni on Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 06:42:26AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 06:42:26AM -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Ain't life a bitch ? > Now Digital will be distributing " ...the greatest concentration of > enterprise Windows NT products and lifecycle services available in the > market today". > Not a happy day for civilization :(. Indeed. It would certainly appear that the Alpha will, unfortunately, never see the mass market.. I'm sure they'll milk as many sales of Alpha systems as they can out of customers until Merced "The Holy Chip" arrives - but after that all bets are off.. 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. History will certainly show Robert Palmer as the man who tore apart Digital piece by piece, and sold it to the highest bidder.. Oh well, such is life I suppose. I was hoping it wouldn't happen, since they seemed to be recovering of late.... -Mark > == > --- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve ! http://www.FreeBSD.org > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU