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August 1998, Week 4

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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Nick Demos writes:

> To set your mind thinking,
>  suppose you could
>  take any application that ran on a UNIX box and recompile it
>  without error
>  of the 3000.  OK, that is an unreachable ideal, but we need to
>  get a lot closer.
>  THEN the 3000 will be more attractive to application developers.

Who said "the damnable tendency to want to be all things to all people" is
dead? :-).

What you would have if it were possible to do what Nick suggests is a MORE
(multiple operating regimes) system. The only question is: "Would it become
more of a mess than a useful system?"

Wirt Atmar

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