I had seen Ultrix only at the institute where I was learning
computers. I agree -- nobody should have bought Ultrix.
But to put Tru64 on Alpha in the same class as Ultrix
is *big* mistake.
Tru64 and Alpha is a winning combination -- on par
with HPUX on PA-RISC, it not better. The problem
was
Peter,
Please allow me to disagree. I came from the USAF with a very deep love for
DEC hardware and software (VAX/VMS), only to be VERY disappointed by them when I
was presented with DEC Ultrix. Their straying into the Unix world was a real
nightmare. First off their sales folks over sold
Guess we had different experiences. OSF was being
replaced in favor of digital unix when I started my
sys admin days on DECs. They were also Oracle's
preferred platform at the time. Things have changed a
lot since then.
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Peter,
Please allow me to disagree.
I never saw Ultrix but have heard other horror stories on this list and
elsewhere.
My first exposure to Dec was in '93 on the brand new Alpha's running openVMS.
64 bit and VLM long before any other vendor (and long before Oracle supported
64 bit, unfortunately)...and if the DEC wire-heads I
I worked w/ ultrix, was horrendous! Dec OSF/1 never took off, better than Ultrix but
bad unix. Then came Digital Unix, not bad, but still not the best. But I did like
the advanced filesystem, esp. cloning filesets, great for quick backups!
Gene
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