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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!infonode!drudetb
- From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
- Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.231441.26644@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <1gqadqINN26v@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:14:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- NT benefits application developers primarily. It makes their
- applications much more portable between architectures, greatly
- increasing their potential market size, and lowering the cost of
- development dramatically. It allows portable workstation applications
- to be delivered in a cost-effective, shrink-wrapped from.
-
- Users eventually benefit from lower development cost with lower
- application prices, and NT runtime royalties will probably be
- lower than comparable Unix royalties. Another user benefit is that it
- provides a true common user interface for applications runnning on both
- PCs and many different workstations. That lowers software training costs
- considerably in a multi-platform environment. Users will also gain
- access many DOS and Windows applications on their workstations.
-
- >Only if you think people are going to dump UNIX and flock to NT. They
- >aren't.
-
- Current Unix users are not going to dump it for NT. To suggest otherwise
- is ridiculous. But lots of Unix developers are going to develop for NT
- as well as Unix. In the long run, NT may succeed simply because of lower
- development costs and, ultimately, lower application prices.
-