Cortlandt writes:

> 2.   The "operating system-agnostic" stance appears two faced.
>  Saying that HP has an opinion about the most appropriate OS for a
>  given situation but then consistently not saying the name of one of
>  the good options doesn't feel "agnostic" to me.    The appearance
>  again is that HP is "agnostic" as long as the options are limited to
>  HP-UX, Linux, or NT.

While "agnostic" has come to mean in modern vernacular usage "noncommital,"
that isn't what the word really means. In fact, it means "unknowable" or
"unknown" (Gk.: a- "non-" + gnostos "known"). In that very strict sense of
the word, the HP3000 seems to be the primary component of the system-agnostic
universe that Ann was talking about :-).

Wirt Atmar