According to Tony B. Shepherd:
>
> I wonder if this could be an omen - just suspicious I guess.
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 1995 09:16:34 EST, David Lethe
>   <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > 6. What about MPE support?
> > It's still early, but we think we can get full O/S support. The way it
> > stands now is that we will
> > either have complete success next quarter, or we will cut our losses on
> > MPE/iX.
> >
> > David A. Lethe
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>
> " ... cut our losses ... " could mean many things, but a statement like
> this would not seem to validate the "open systems" picture of Posix.
>
> Just a thought  --  regards  --  Tony B. Shepherd  --  [log in to unmask]
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Open hardware is different than open software - or so it seems to me.
Posix, so far as I know, defines open software. SCSI is supposed to
be an open standard for hardware, but MPE appears to be "special". The
question is, to me at least, do the things we *link* aobut MPE have
anything to do with the "special" hardware?
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