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| From | cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: The COHERENT Operating System |
| Date | 2024-03-29 01:06 +0000 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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In article <uu2ob8$3bcot$2@dont-email.me>, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote: >Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote: >> On 2024-03-28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote: >>> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:23:58 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote: >>> >>>> ... but the Linux juggernaut got too much for MWC :( >>> >>> I wonder how you could call a rag-tag bunch of volunteers a >>> “juggernaut” ... >> >> One could argue that Linux ate commercial *nix's lunch. > >Linux (free of cost) plus the rather rapid performance increases of the >Intel x86 arch over those years were what ate commerical Unix's lunch. >When one could buy a commodity x86 system for a couple grand, which had >more compute performance than a five or six figure unix workstation, >and get 'Unix' (Linux) on the x86 for free, the commerical unix >workstation vendors no longer had a market they could sell into. > >One, without the other, would not have had the same devastating effect >on the unix workstation market. I remember vividly back in the mid-late 90's a sysadmin I knew showing me a COTS PC running Linux; nothing I hadn't seen before but he made an offhand comment that blew me away: "Yeah, it's about half the speed of a SPARCstation-whatever, but a quarter of the cost." That's when I knew Linux on x86 had won. - Dan C.
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The COHERENT Operating System Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-03-24 20:55 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> - 2024-03-25 12:23 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-28 00:52 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-03-28 01:27 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2024-03-28 03:31 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) - 2024-03-29 01:06 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins) - 2024-03-29 04:36 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-29 04:58 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-29 03:15 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-03-25 21:26 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-03-25 22:54 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2024-03-26 10:19 +0000
Re: The COHERENT Operating System Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-03-28 23:15 -0300
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