Re: HP to can HP/UX? Intel pulls out of IA-64 prematurely?

From: Andrew Harrison (andrew_._remove_harrison_at_su_n.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:55:10 +0100

Dr. Dweeb wrote:

> Andrew Harrison wrote:
>>
>>In reality you have Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Fedora etc
>>each of which is slightly different from the other each of which
>>requires binarys targetted to that platform. Sometimes you do get
>>lucky but sometimes you don't.
>>
>
>
> nee nee nee nee -- nee nee nee nee --
>
> Oh no, I am entering the twighlight zone, another space and dimension, being
> transported to a time when application compatibility accross Unix platforms
> was a claimed and largely non-existent advantage of Unix* per se.
>
> Is this deja vu all over again ?
>

Yes except its worse because all the distributions are called
Linux all run on x86 and this gives people the "strange" idea
that they might be compatible.

At least you had Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSF-1 all different names
all running on different platforms, much less expectation of
compatibility.

Regards
Andrew Harrison

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