Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
i can get from here to here by going --- | or by going | --- both perfectly solve the problem, and yet like a glass of water, people will rally behind if its hall full or empty. Dean Rick Welykochy wrote: Minh Van Le wrote: Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX,

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Rob B
At 13:17 4/10/2001, Minh Van Le wrote: Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Please don't group Alpha with Sun ... us DEC owners are hurting enough as it is :) Rob -- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art. This is random quote 167 of a

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Peter Rundle
both perfectly solve the problem, and yet like a glass of water, people will rally behind if its hall full or empty. In fact the glass is just twice the size it needed to be ;-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Christopher Booth
and some are made of plastic, some are goblets of pewter, clay, or glass, and some are even made of crystal. All hold liquid for imbibing - Original Message - From: Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Why

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Thu 04 Oct, Minh Van Le made the following spurious claims: Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Is it a greedy vendor thing, or are there hardware advantages or something. Why all the different races? Why does natural selection favour species diversity and

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread David Fitch
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:40:06AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Thats thinking outside the square ;) (or cup in this case) you mustn't have heard the joke before... a pessimist calls the glass half empty an optimist calls it half full and an engineer says it's twice as big as it needs to be!

[SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-03 Thread Minh Van Le
Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Is it a greedy vendor thing, or are there hardware advantages or something. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-03 Thread Jill Rowling
Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 13:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Why the different platforms Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Is it a greedy vendor thing, or are there hardware advantages or something

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-03 Thread Rick Welykochy
Minh Van Le wrote: Why all the platforms ? - AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Alpha/Sparc/Sun. Is it a greedy vendor thing, or are there hardware advantages or something. capitalism and the free market system _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited