From: sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 1 Oct 1992 22:14:45 GMT
In article <3747@eastman.UUCP>, talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) writes...
>In article <BvB0JA.7tr@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>In article <1a7gv0INNc35@almaak.usc.edu> ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
>>:The leader of the Windows NT project is a guy named Dave Cutler
>>:who worked for DEC before this job. He was asked how doing this
>>:project was different from his earlier work. He said ``it's the
>>:same OS, but I've never seen such marketing''.
>>:
>>:Really: it's sickening to see the way the peasants are blindly
>>:believing that Windows NT is the ``OS of the future''. This when
>>:it's as certain as plain daylight that Microsoft will never have
>>:a market share as large as what it had in 1987, ever again, even
>>:if Windows NT can ship before end-1993 and it can be free of bugs
>>:and it can be worth using for anyone. Remember these guys tried writing
>>:DOS, Windows, OS/2.
>>
>>Unfortunately I fear you may be wrong. Note the "Dec" above. Windows NT
>>is being targeted at the new Dec ultra-fast 64bit Risc line, which
>
>Are you referring to the Alpha chip? If so, the NT port probably ain't so
>hot, as the Alpha chip is proverbially buggier than Maine in June.
>
Say what? I have seen systems based on the 21064 chip, and they were solid.
Just check with the many ISVs who have them :-)
The 21064 worked on first silicon, and respins were for performance as I
understand it.
>
>If Microsoft and DEC work together to port an operating system (that's reputed
>in some circles to be not much better than MS-DOS), fine. For all their work,
>they're still far behind: look at Unix. It's been running on everything from
>Crays to 286 boxes (and below?) for a while now.
>
Well, far be it for me to defend NT, as I really like Unix, but I would like to
know which circles repute NT to be not much better than MS-DOS? It would also
be interesting to know what they mean.
Windows NT has a real chance of being a big success in the commercial arena,
and it has little to do with technical merit :-)
>As I said before, all Microsoft *really* has is the marketing team from hell.
>
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>>G
>>--
>
>--Brian
>__________
>Brian Talley, Systems Consultant, Eastman Kodak Research Labs, Rochester, NY
>talley@acadia.kodak.com
Regards
Richard Sharpe
These opinions be mine, Digital has its own!