Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:11:03 -0600 (CST) From: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq bought Digital :(. Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980127090934.23597A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980127095839.14234@vmunix.com>
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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?"
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