On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 20:33 -0600, Josh Coates wrote: > well, of course DEC didn't get bought by HP, it was bought by Compaq. HP > merely owns what was once DEC. > > but what i really meant was "when is sun going to die a horrible death and > drown in it's own > 'we-do-everything-ourselves-chips-operating-systems-applications-storage-you > -name-we-do-it,just-in-an-inefficient-uncompetitive-overpriced-bloated-johnn > y-come-lately-sort-of-way' gunk?" > > but instead of saying all that, i just said "like DEC".
However, I have to say it is a real shame that DEC went the way it did. The Alpha was an *awesome"* architecture. Desktop 64-bit computing 10 years ago. Plus Alpha's had a BIOS firmware that was even better than Sun's (which Apple borrowed) OpenFirmware. Sun will die a horrible death. But I have to say that Sun's hardware and software combination is extremely elegant and dependable. Solaris on a Sparc is impressive. What's killing Sun is not their hardware, but their lack of business savvy and their continue waffling over issues like Linux and open source, making them irrelevant to most people. Even when Sun dies, the Sparc will live on, since it is an open architecture and anyone could, if they chose, produce Sparc processors. Whether that is relevant is another story. Michael > > Josh Coates > www.jcoates.org -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
