From: cdr@hpenv2.lad.lmsc.lockheed.com (Chris Roberson) Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1993 23:28:42 GMT
In article <willmore.735940595@beijing.gis.iastate.edu>, willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes:
|> 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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|> willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" |
|> David Willmore | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" |
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OSF/1 is a good operating system. It's so good that the only company
using it is DEC. Every other member of the OSF has decided to take
the pieces which are worthwhile and place them into the current OS.
This include both HP and IBM. Most people will tell you they would
trade Ultrix in a moments notice instead of using OSF/1. DEC doesn't
provide this option on the Alpha machines.
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