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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 08:19:07 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.cpj3rm@erics.infoserv.com>
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- ian@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ian Joyner) writes:
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- > Unix somehow sits in the middle of mainframes and workstations, but is
- > not particularly suitable for either task. So where will it be in 10 years?
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- I think the industry is definitely moving in the direction of microkernels.
- In 10 years Unix will still be around but it will probably be only one
- of several "operating systems" that actually run on top of an MK, possibly
- even on the same machine since processor speeds will increase dramatically
- in the next ten years.
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- Eric Smith
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