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- In article <3g9meh$qq@beta.inc.net>, syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust)
- wrote:
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- > In article <3g745g$pic@news.cais.com>, jlfitz@cais.cais.com (Jeffrey Fitzgerald) says:
- > >
- > > I was told tonight by an SGI friend that SGI runs on unix. If
- > >this is correct, would this LW version operate on a unix based cobra 275?
- > >
- >
- > Big confusion. SGIs run IRIX, SGI's version of Unix. No other
- > computers run IRIX. Not to mention all the other SGI-specific
- > code, Unix ain't Unix ain't Unix. "Simple" Unix ports often aren't.
-
- ;-) un*x ;-) Yep, this is why NT stands a chance. un*x has never
- delivered on its promise of vendor/hardware independence due to the fact
- that there are too many chefs in the kitchen, and they are all trying to
- stay a leg up on the other chefs.
-
- Although NT is proprietary, it does lock the other chefs out the kitchen
- and therefore can provide strict guidelines to all the hardware vendors
- that wish to support NT. This is done through the HAL (hardware
- abstraction layer). How well it has been done, I can't say.
- I don't expect NT to wipe out un*x, but the squabbles between un*x vendors
- is certainly going to cost them a chunk of the market share.
-
- One of NT's biggest problems is the delays caused by trying to support
- all of the legacy software and hardware of the Dos/windows world, plus
- the Novell and Appletalk worlds. However, if they pull it off before
- new legacies are formed ;-) it will be a tremendous advantage for NT.
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