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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <2B6010B6.14DF3@tct.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:20:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan18.193031.971@compu.com> <C14Kvo.18F@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1993Jan20.154201.21194@crd.ge.com> <C188DI.EHE@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
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- According to karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger):
- >I suspect that the Intel Unix systems may be doomed.
-
- Not a chance. The NT, OS/2, and MS-DOS markets will continue to push
- the PC clone architecture QUICKLY toward better bang/buck ratios. Sun
- can't amortize SPARC development costs like the PC clone makers can.
-
- PC UNIX rides that wave of good and cheap hardware, and there's no
- reason to think it won't continue to do so.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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