From: David Willmore (willmore@iastate.edu)
Date: 04/27/93


From: willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore)
Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 19:56:35 GMT

nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:

>>My next machine won't be an Intel archetecture machine. The reasons are
>>fairly clear in the market today. Very low priced RISC PC's are coming into
>>being which are in my price range and can use the standard hardware (IDE
>>drives, floppys, keyboards, vga cards, etc). The difference? They won't
>>need someone to write a 'Linux' for them. They'll *come* with a good OS.
>>They won't have to 'home grow' one.

>The low price RISC PCs you mention (Alpha, R4000) are going to run
>Windows NT, if you consider that a good OS, well...

Be realistic, there will at least be OSF/1. I consider that to be a very
good operating system.

Later,
David

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