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- Path: sparky!uunet!murphy!jpradley!grumpy
- From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
- Subject: Re: Media coverage (Electronic Engineer Times) Portability?
- Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:11:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.121120.16186@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <711756169.3791@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Lines: 59
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- In article <711756169.3791@minster.york.ac.uk> martin@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
- >Hauke Hess says:
- >
- >> > | Available on non-X86 X
- >>
- >> OS/2 will be available on non X86 this fall.
- >
- >Ah now! This is rapidly becoming my biggest problem with OS/2 (1 month ago
- >I was classed around here as an OS/2 fanatic, so don't think I started
- >prejudiced against OS/2 - in fact the opposite is true!)
- >
- >Ok, so OS/2 will be on `non x86' machines this fall. I have no reason to
- >disbelieve this. But *which* non x86 machines will it be? Will it be open
- >architecture machines based around CPUs that anyone can buy, and hence clone,
- >or will it be on RS6000 based machines? Will RS6000 chips be available to
- >clone manufacturers? Or will IBM and Apple be the only people making these
- >machines? Neither company are well known for producing low cost machines.
- >
- >NT will be available on x86, MIPS, and soon afterwards on Alpha. All of which
- >can be bought by anyone, and built into machines by anyone - hence there is
- >likely to be competition between these machine manufacturers which will keep
- >the price down (how much less does a clone cost than a PS/2?). Of course
- >the RS6000 *might* also be easy to buy, and assuming IBM don't have awkward
- >conditions (a la microchannel liciencing) we might get RS6000 clones too,
- >but then what is to stop Microsoft, or some enterprising 3rd party, from
- >porting NT to the RS6000? (Note that DEC are doing the port to Alpha, not
- >Microsoft)
- >
- >
- >Martin
- >INTERNET: martin@minster.york.ac.uk
- >JANET: martin@uk.ac.york.minster
- >surface:
- > Dr. Martin C. Atkins
- > Dept. of Computer Science
- > University of York
- > Heslington
- > York YO1 5DD
- > ENGLAND
-
-
- Ahh - but RS6000 chips will be available to all comers from Motorola, or so
- IBM says. They're already having other companies sell OEM'ed RS6k's, and when
- the "Power PC" chips are available from Motorola, anyone'll be able to buy 'em.
-
- We'll have to see about DEC porting NT to the Alpha, since that
- (dis)organization can't even make up its mind on what flavor of Unix to sell.
- As for MIPS, I suspect that the R4000 will be appearing in very few OEM
- boxes now that SGI bought them out.
-
-
- Jeff Markel
-
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