From: ketil@linerle.ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde) Subject: Re: Great marketing (Was Re: BYTE asks, is UNIX dead?) Date: 30 Sep 1992 15:44:05
In article <3747@eastman.UUCP> talley@ashleigh.Kodak.COM (Brian K. Talley) writes:
[345]86 platforms will die out? No, I disagree. DOS, maybe, but not the
hardware.
Oh, they will. Or should...the chips are archaic, I'd swap them for
almost anything with a clean design any day. But they'll probably
hang around for a few years yet...not to mention that there's a lot of
them around, that won't just disappear over night.
BTW, isn't the p5 going to be RISC with x86 emulation? Rumors have it
so, I think.
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.
I don't think I'd run UNIX on a 286 (hell, I wouldn't run *anything*
on a 286.. :-) (no flames please, I know a small macine is right sometimes
As I said before, all Microsoft *really* has is the marketing team from hell
The worst thing is, they don't really need marketing at all. Bill
Gates only have to cough a little and have an occasional dream, and
the whole computer press as well as the bean counters get that silly
smile on their faces...