On 12 Sep 96 at 14:41, Bob Brown wrote:
 
> Wouldn't this be a problem for the Unix camp as well, generating the same
> concern?  Or is the 3000 base just too small?
 
It's not a concern with the Unix camp because unix customers (whether
HP or not) generally don't expect to have upward compatibility. Often,
just OS version updates, without new configs or hardware or anything,
is not upward compatible.  On the other hand, upward/forward
compatibility (and even backward compatibility in many cases) is the
reason we're still discussing the 3k anyway.  Without this, the 3k
would have been just another (P&E, NCR, CDC and several others)
machine. Here, then gone; "Now for my next trick..."
 
My personal $.02 worth.
 
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