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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.162924.8425@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:29:24 GMT
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- In article <2B62D876.3982@tct.com>, chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
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- | CPU development isn't the point. It's the rest of the computer that
- | counts. Of all computer markets, only the PC clone market has driven
- | the creation of whole-motherboard chip sets, such as by OPTi and
- | Chips&Technologies. And common peripheral boards for the ISA bus are
- | so cheap you can practically give them away.
-
- You mean the $20 IDE HD+FD+2S+P+G? Dead right, they're cheap, and for
- a few $ more you can have a good UART, too. But there is not a lot to
- choose between the PC and SPARC in terms of integration level (on the
- new ones).
-
- | >At least here in Europe, one can prove, that workstations based
- | >on PC will be tremedously more expensive than one based on SPARC.
- |
- | If that's true, perhaps the process of exporting the computers, with
- | tariffs etc, throws prices off.
-
- Just so, there's no reason other than price fiddling to find the cost
- reversed. Of course PC based UNIX is aimed at a lower level of user
- training, and that means the manuals are typically better and the system
- administration easier. Obviously not without exception, but in general
- that not only makes the system accessible to more people, but cheaper to
- admin for the big site with full time admins doing the work.
-
- | OS/2, microkernel or no, will run on the 486 for the forseeable future.
-
- Not on *my* 486 it won't!
- --
- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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