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Subject: Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 01:44:43 +0200 (CEST)
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In article <xp9gG.96243$ss3.30326@fx20.am4>
Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-26, Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:
> > On 26/03/2020 20.17, anonlinuxuser wrote:
> >> On 3/26/20 2:18 AM, Melzzzzz wrote:
> >>> On 2020-03-25, anonlinuxuser <linuxuser@noone.net> wrote:
> >>>> On 3/25/20 1:57 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> >>>>> On 25/03/2020 11.14, Johann Beretta wrote:
> >>>>>> On 9/15/19 3:20 PM, AnonLinuxUser wrote:
> >>>>>> <snip>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> After looking around, I found what Linux was originally intended to
> >>>>>>> do...
> >>>>>>> Learn UNIX for free on a PC.�  Then the suggestion was to maybe be
> >>>>>>> qualified for a UNIX job.�  Tho not all of linux is identically the
> >>>>>>> same.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Your comparison itself is false (although not deliberately of course).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It is true that I installed Linux initially to learn Unix, as I could
> >>>>> not pay a Unix system. Unix (and Linux) was used by my employer
> >>>>> company.
> >>>>> Perhaps on summer 1998. Seeing that a serious company was using
> >>>>> Linux on
> >>>>> important tasks told me that Linux was a serious thing, not a hobby.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> According to history, UNIX back in 1992 or so, cost about $1500 for a
> >>>> PC.
> >>>
> >>> That was SCO Unix. I had it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I was a little lad then.�  Later I saw some history that Sun Microsystems
> >> started around that time of charging around $1200 for a PC and then
> >> lowered their price to $800,... and then it was offered free.
> >>
> >> Maybe back in 1995 old Ballmer was right calling win95 as a UNIX killer.
> >> The only survivor now is Linux and Apple.
> >
> > No, he wasn't. What killed UNIX was Linux, not Windows.
>
> Unix isn't dead at all... problem is that proprietary system have fewer
> resources... and all simply put effort in Linux and use it...
>
> >
> > I saw PCs deployed in production running Linux doing the same thing as
> > UNIX machines priced a hundred times more. No one thought of using
> > Windows machines instead.
> >
> >
>
>
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