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- From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:54:45 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- fred j mccall 575-3539 (mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com) wrote:
- :
- : Why would someone with one of those processors want to run NT? I'd
- : much rather run the SGI UNIX/X stuff on an Indigo than run NT.
- :
- You're missing the point. People currently running DOS/Windows will
- be moving to NT. Those users outnumber UNIX users by several orders
- of magnitude. Sure, anyone who's used UNIX (I'll stick to HPUX :-> )
- will tend to stay with it.
-
- : Only if you think people are going to dump UNIX and flock to NT. They
- : aren't.
-
- Imagine this:
- You're "upgrading" operating systems and currently use MSDOS 5.0
- and want to keep the investment you've made in PC s/w safe. Will you
- run your software on an x86 platform, or buy a "PC" running windows
- NT with an Alpha processor, say, with 10x the computing power! I'd
- BAG the antiquated x86 family and go with RISC.
-