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- From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:47:52 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- Message-ID: <4kjd3o$nks@mordred.gatech.edu>
- References: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <danpop.828020070@rscernix> <828207683snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <danpop.828240895@rscernix> <dewar.828365229@schonberg>,<3160B659.D3B@mcs.com> <4kj4rq$d34@fnnews.fnal.gov>
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- morphis@fnalv1.fnal.gov wrote:
- : In article <3160B659.D3B@mcs.com>, Mike Young <mikey@mcs.com> writes:
- : >Robert Dewar wrote:
- : >>
- : >> Dan Pop said
- : >>
- : >> "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)."
- : >>
- : >> That's wrong, Machten, a pretty complete system 5 port, runs fine on
- : >> a Power Mac.
- : >
- : >======
- : >Does anyone else find it odd that everything (it seems) runs on a Power
- : >PC, but not OS/2?
-
- : no, OS/2 isn't on PPC for business reasons.
-
- You can get OS/2 for the PowerPC, but you must order it directly from IBM.
- As far as IBM is concerned there's little reason to expend the money or
- effort to market OS/2 for the PowerPC (since the most popular PowerPC
- platform is the Power Macintoshes and few Power Mac hardware developpers
- seemed interested in writing device drivers for Power Mac peripherals for
- OS/2).
-
-
- : 1)IBM wants to sell its unix on the PPC and would lose some unix sales
- : if they put OS/2 on it
-
- Doubtful. For the most part, OS/2 really is poised as a desktop OS that is
- more easily maintained by a single user. It runs a wide array of low-cost
- (relatively speaking) off-the-shelf software. It has some very nice features,
- but probably wouldn't be applied to the same tasks as AIX would be (at
- least we use our OS/2 and UNIX boxes for very different uses).
-
-
- : 2) IBM has a limited amt of resources they are willing to put behind
- : OS/2, and have made the (IMvHO) wise decision to concentrate on intel.
- : The P6 is a pretty hot little puppy and OS/2 takes good advantage of it.
-
- True, and true. Though, to be honest, Intel is beating a dead horse with
- their new CPUs. It's time to make some radical changes and dispense with
- backwards compatibility (or, at least, provide a separate compatibility
- layer for the CPU).
-
-
- : In any case VMS is superiour (sp?) in all ways to UNIX! so there!
- : (and he quickly leaves stage left)
-
- :) I have to admit VMS' RMS is pretty cool. Other than that...
-