Sequent Computer Systems Inc says that it will have formulated its long-term plans for its future Unix requirement in a couple of months. The short-term output from the OpenServer-UnixWare integration is of no interest to it, it said, and if it doesn’t like what it sees of Hewlett-Packard Co’s 64-bit Unix plans, it will go off and do its own 64-bit thing, just as it did to create its own symmetric multiprocessing Unix System V.4 previously. Remember that Hewlett-Packard will be competing directly with Sequent when the merged Precision Architecture-iAPX-86 generation surfaces. Of course, gossips have linked Hewlett and Sequent as marriage partners in the past, and something along those lines could still happen.
