What kind of OS changes its name every 6 months?
DEC OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Compaq Tru64, Compaq UNIX. Did I miss anything? All of these are the same OS, Digital^WCompaq’s proprietary UN*X for their alpha chip computers. It’s all new code, with all new bugs. This means that experienced admins will have many problems, as they cannot rely as much on their experience to prevent problems. Case in point: for a long while, you could crash any newly installed OSF/1 system by running a debugger (DBX or GDB). Eventually people started learning to install the right patch immediately on opening the box. (Today this has been fixed.) Perhaps it’s no wonder they keep on changing the name.
