I am looking to port a commercial development tool from a Symbolics
platform to one that is currently supported. I have access to the PC
environment as well as Alpha workstations. If anyone is aware of an
appropriate emulation, input would be appreciated @
··········@link.com
Thanks,
John
In article <·················@link.com>, John Childress
<··········@link.com> wrote:
> I am looking to port a commercial development tool from a Symbolics
> platform to one that is currently supported. I have access to the PC
> environment as well as Alpha workstations. If anyone is aware of an
> appropriate emulation, input would be appreciated @
> ··········@link.com
Symbolics (www.symbolics.com) sells Open Genera, which is
running on DEC/DIGITAL/COMPAQ Alpha under their Unix OS.
Open Genera is an emulation of the Ivory
architecture and costs around $5000 per
machine (multiple running images allowed, includes most
of the source code).
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Email: ·············@corporate-world.lisp.de
Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/
Thanks for your input. The problem with that is that Symbolics is
terminating all support as of Oct 15 2000. So I am not really willing to
drop 5k on a unsupported piece of software. I am not clear as to their
business position but it doesn't look good from what I can tell.
John
Rainer Joswig wrote:
> In article <·················@link.com>, John Childress
> <··········@link.com> wrote:
>
> > I am looking to port a commercial development tool from a Symbolics
> > platform to one that is currently supported. I have access to the PC
> > environment as well as Alpha workstations. If anyone is aware of an
> > appropriate emulation, input would be appreciated @
> > ··········@link.com
>
> Symbolics (www.symbolics.com) sells Open Genera, which is
> running on DEC/DIGITAL/COMPAQ Alpha under their Unix OS.
> Open Genera is an emulation of the Ivory
> architecture and costs around $5000 per
> machine (multiple running images allowed, includes most
> of the source code).
>
> --
> Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
> Email: ·············@corporate-world.lisp.de
> Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Childress would say:
>Thanks for your input. The problem with that is that Symbolics is
>terminating all support as of Oct 15 2000. So I am not really willing to
>drop 5k on a unsupported piece of software. I am not clear as to their
>business position but it doesn't look good from what I can tell.
Urk. That is _not_ encouraging. I'd consider it a _dramatically_ dumb
idea to buy a license to this now if there is only to be another month
of support...
Is there any information on what they intend after that date?
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In article <·······················@knuth.brownes.org>,
········@hex.net wrote:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when John Childress would say:
> >Thanks for your input. The problem with that is that Symbolics is
> >terminating all support as of Oct 15 2000. So I am not really willing to
> >drop 5k on a unsupported piece of software. I am not clear as to their
> >business position but it doesn't look good from what I can tell.
>
> Urk. That is _not_ encouraging. I'd consider it a _dramatically_ dumb
> idea to buy a license to this now if there is only to be another month
> of support...
>
> Is there any information on what they intend after that date?
I don't think this is really true. A few days ago they were talking
about Open Genera 2.1.
Rainer Joswig
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In article <····························@news.is-europe.net>, Rainer
Joswig <······@corporate-world.lisp.de> wrote:
> > Urk. That is _not_ encouraging. I'd consider it a _dramatically_ dumb
> > idea to buy a license to this now if there is only to be another month
> > of support...
Official reaction: support is ***not*** going away. This was
a wrong information that has been posted here.
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Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
Email: ·············@corporate-world.lisp.de
Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/
John Childress <··········@link.com> writes:
>Thanks for your input. The problem with that is that Symbolics is
>terminating all support as of Oct 15 2000. So I am not really willing to
>drop 5k on a unsupported piece of software. I am not clear as to their
>business position but it doesn't look good from what I can tell.
I'd say that's the best reason to get the software *now*, while you
still can (at least that's what I do for games that get off the market :-)
It's been on the market for quite a while, the bugs should be bearable
even without hope of getting them fixed.
Martin
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In article <············@counter.bik-gmbh.de>,
········@counter.bik-gmbh.de (Martin Cracauer) wrote:
> John Childress <··········@link.com> writes:
>
> >Thanks for your input. The problem with that is that Symbolics is
> >terminating all support as of Oct 15 2000. So I am not really willing to
> >drop 5k on a unsupported piece of software. I am not clear as to their
> >business position but it doesn't look good from what I can tell.
>
> I'd say that's the best reason to get the software *now*, while you
> still can (at least that's what I do for games that get off the market :-)
>
> It's been on the market for quite a while, the bugs should be bearable
> even without hope of getting them fixed.
This was a false information. Support is still available.
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Rainer Joswig, Hamburg, Germany
Email: ·············@corporate-world.lisp.de
Web: http://corporate-world.lisp.de/