> I'm not sure what we could learn in terms of developer accessibility> or
> approachability from dead or dormant platforms.HP-UX ain't dead yet, in fact
> 11iv3 came out relatively recently. It's just closed and not easily
> accessible, and therefore not transparent, so the general public doesn't get
> to see the innovation happening. IRIX may be dead, but if we consider that
> IRIX, even though it is dead, still has in it technology that is light years
> ahead of anything currently available on the market, you ought to sit down
> and really rethink the statement you made above. Especially if we consider
> that IRIX still has technology that puts "the most advanced operating system
> on the planet" to shame, one really ought to rethink statements like the one
> you made above. The point here is, regardless of whether an OS is dead or
> not, Solaris should *always* look up to the best solutions, and not to
> solutions which are currently in fashion.
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