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- From: Dave@usppc.abb.com
- Subject: Re: A flight of marketing fancy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.124658.28160@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: Dave@usppc.abb.com
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:46:58 GMT
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- Richb writes
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- | My guess? Windows NT is going to be the dominant low-cost 386 O/S.
- | Microsoft has the marketing savvy and financial muscle.
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- My guess is that he's correct. Let's not be all things to all people.
- One can just boot the other OS when it's talents are needed.
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- The things I've read suggest that the Linux community has a full plate
- already developing and polishing a major operating system. This is
- quite an accomplishment for a loosely affiliated group of hobbists.
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- There seems to be a good bit of life here! CMU Mach is snarled in the
- licensing/ownership mess. The 386BSD people are barely detectable.
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- Bravo Zulu (well done)
- Dave Hamby Dave.Hamby@Usppc.Abb.Com
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