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Re: Off Topic: Microsoft has been busy...



Alexandre Khalil <iskandar@EESUN2.tamu.edu> wrote:
|
|On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:
|
|>                    I just happened to wonder why
|> Sun, who are one of the three largest suppliers of UNIX workstation,
|>are the only ones who didn't have NT for their platform.
|
|  They are not the only ones.  IBM dropped the PowerPC port three months
|ago and I was told SGI dumped the MIPS port as well.

Hey! That's great news!!  Where did you get them from (so I can get
some juicy stuff).

|
|  This lived only Intel and Alpha versions of NT.  Certainly, Digital
|will eventually sink the Alpha port especifically if Linux for Alpha
|catches on. 

>From what Marc told me about the Alpha NT, sounds like it has at least
a reason to be on the way out.

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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