Newsgroups: comp.arch
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SUN MMU design secrets
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.184111.10023@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov3.150202.27353@ameristar> <1990Nov3.235958.21976@zoo.toronto.edu> <PCG.90Nov4181554@athene.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1990Nov5.122811.310@ameristar>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 18:41:11 GMT

In article <1990Nov5.122811.310@ameristar> rick@ameristar (Rick Spanbauer) writes:
>	... without the prprietery MMU, the clone 
>	folks could get SunOS the way PC types get MS-DOS, ie no license 
>	fee.  Just tell their customers to buy tapes from Sun and load
>	them up.  Thus Sun looses both the hardware sale and the large
>	front licensing fee they would normally collect.

Uh, you can't buy tapes from Sun without the license, so they can still
gouge you for licensing fees.  As for hardware, Sun has been heard to
loftily proclaim "we're a software company now".  (Yeah, sure.)
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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