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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!syacus!ian
- From: ian@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ian Joyner)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT = Death of the Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.031932.12367@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
- References: <D2150056.cpj3rm@erics.infoserv.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 03:19:32 GMT
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- erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith) writes:
- >ian@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ian Joyner) writes:
-
- >> 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?
-
- >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.
-
- This is interesting, and leads towards having truly open operating systems
- sometime in the future. Unix is often touted to be an or even the Open OS.
- This, however, is a strange definition of 'Open'. Open will be when we
- have many diverse systems and operating systems that conform to specific
- interfaces so that they can interoperate in a wide enviroment external
- to themselves. Sitting on an MK will be one way to achieve this. But I
- think in the future that this will be a great advantage to those who are
- a little bit more visionary, and who want to buy whatever the future
- equivalent of the Mac is. They will not have to listen to all the
- detractors who say it is not MS-DOS compatible (not true anyway),
- as MS-DOS and Mac will both play on a level playing field. This way
- there will be many more interesting and novel systems that are able
- to exist in the market place. We won't be locked into any one vendor's
- systems, or in fact into Unix. Standardisation on one OS is 'not' open
- systems.
-
- --
- Ian Joyner ACUS (Australian Centre for Unisys Software) ian@syacus.acus.oz
- "Where is the man with all the great directions?...You can't imagine it,
- how hard it is to grow, Can you imagine the order of the universe?" ABWH
- Disclaimer:Opinions and comments are personal.
-