Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 18:39:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Conclusion to "NT vs. Unix" debate Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970903182956.29475B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199709030632.AAA12695@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Conclusions? We don't allow no steenking conclusions here! > [snip] > > At the moment, a Unix server (probably any Unix server) is more > > suited for something like an Internet-server than an NT server, be > > it for mail, news, ftp or http. > > > > Trouble is, most non-Intel platforms will be having a hard time to > > survive, simply because of the tremendous costs to build a new > > plant. Intel is somewhat the Microsoft of the hardware world: they > > could have released the Pentium II months earlier, but there simply > > was no need. Alpha is your best bet in processor architectures, > > as it comes to who survives Intel the longest. What company can > > put own $1,000,000,000 for a new processor? > > Motorola. IBM. Hitachi. NEC. Fujitsu, now the world's second largest > computer company, and very loud about it. etc. Of course, all of them > but Motorola also make WinTel machines. Personally, I think it stupid > that Moto and IBM didn't pick up support for NT on CHRP when MS dumped > it; they're doing themselves a great disservice. AIX, bad as it is, is > better than NT, but "will it run Word?" Well, the rumour goes that MS wanted 300M for continuing to support PPC in future versions. It seems they didn't consider it worth that amount of money? [another snip.] Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com >
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