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- From: goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Red Herring)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:25:15 GMT
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- In article <BzpuFq.2G1@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil> rjsmith@iron.hq.aflc.af.mil (Randy Smith) writes:
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- >>Does this mean that Novell is stacking up Unix against Windows NT?
- >
- >> It may not be such a bad move to get Unix more into the mainstream. Novell
- >>has more experience and greater success in moving application and os software
- >>than AT&T / USL.
- >
- >Let's look at Windows NT. Microsoft has said that NT is for high-end PCs and
- >RISC-based machines, it has integrated networking support, *real* multitasking,
- >and [my opinion] will be too expensive for the "common" end-user PC. So NT is
- >clearly going after the PC server market where Novell has something like
- >70-80% of the market. ...
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- I beg to disagree. I have a couple of Unix workstations in my office, one of
- them is a 5+-year engineering prototype, and I can't recall when was the
- last time either of those went down. Definitely not in 1992.
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- I have a 386/33 clone at home running WIN3.1, and that one "freezes"
- once a day, more if there are any modem-related activities. The same
- machine, btw, had no problem running SVR4.
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- Given my WIN experiense, I do not expect NT to reach a level of robustness
- required to run mission-critical applications for many years, and when
- it finally does, 32-bit OS technology will be mostly confined to
- desktop anyway.
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- Two things MUST happen to UNIX for it to be able to compete against
- NT and OS/2 on x86 desktop:
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- the basic configuration must be able to run off-the-shelf
- WIN/DOS binaries
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- it must be priced competetively
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