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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 31 Mar 96 02:54:55 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828240895@rscernix>
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- In <828207683snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- >In article <danpop.828020070@rscernix> danpop@mail.cern.ch "Dan Pop" writes:
- >
- >>In <AD7EB33C9668919A@mcdiala13.it.luc.edu> VArase@varase.it.luc.edu (Verne
- >> Arase) writes:
- >>
- >>>Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware.
- >>
- >>Like Cray's, SGI Challenge's or DEC TurboLasers, right?
- >>Or maybe you were thinking about large parallel systems, like IBM SP/2
- >>or the Meiko's.
- >
- >Unix does run on cheap hardware. Of course it also runs on extremely powerful
- >(and expensive) hardware. One 'charm' is that you pay your money and you
- >take your choice.
-
- In my book, one of the main charms is that Unix runs on almost any kind
- of hardware, from the most expensive to the cheapest PC (currently the
- Power Mac is the exception, but Apple is actively involved in a Linux
- port).
-
- Dan
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- Dan Pop
- CERN, CN Division
- Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch
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