From: nwp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Nick Phillips) Subject: Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead? Date: 28 Sep 1992 14:18:06 GMT
In <bibhas.717685421@femto.engr.mun.ca> bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya) writes:
>This months BYTE screams out asking "Is UNIX dead?". A closer scrutiny
>of the article proved it's just the otherwise. Are these people trying
>to form a public opinion by some kind of a cheap sneaky media proaganda
>or are these people smart as anybody else? Are they completely bought
>out or just being responsible journalists to guide the common people towards
>more productive computing. I can, frankly, never convince myself with the later
>arguments. As always perhaps, money rules.
>Bibhas.
I haven't read the article in question, but I remember about 10 years ago, BYTE
had a similar cover asking "Is this the year of UNIX?". Don't worry about it,
they're just trying to ask provocative questions, and in the process, sell
magazines... who cares what they think, anyway? With systems like Linux & 386BSD
only now beginning to make UNIX-like systems available to the average person
with a PC box at home, at a reasonable price, how can it be dead? Maybe they were
just referring to AT&T's UNIX... now that it has a bit of competition ;-)
Nick.