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Re: off off topic: Unix lives or dies?



On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Ira Abramov wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Amos Shapira wrote:

>> That's one thingI learned from Marc - that Digital cut Alpha prices
>> down enough to make PPro prices look at them from above.  Check
>> Computer Shopper or something like that.

  I am especifically interested in multi-processor boards: our department
is buying Sun 2 CPUs boxes but they are very pricey ($20k) even though
they are at the bottom of the Sun scale.
  Already dual PPro boards are very cheap: $1500 with two 200Mhz/256k.
The quads are still too expensive: the lowest I could find was about
$7500 -though the CPUs might be 512Ks-.
  I am suggesting giving a try at a dual PPro with a large amount of RAM
-256/512Megs- to experiment building a CPU farm on the cheap using Linux
of course.

>> And now that NT isn't as portable as it wanted to be (that was one
>> potential advantage of it over UNIX), UNIX might survive yet.
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  With the explosion of Linux, this is guaranteed.

>the Unices that will survive the longest, it seems are NeXT and Linux...
>the only two that will keep getting updated into the second decade of the
>next millenium.

  Solaris is unlikely to vanish.  NeXT will look very different in a few
decades.  Irix has a secure niche.

  I really see Linux as being the dominant O/S in the coming years: true
Windozes will continue to be here but Linux like Apple Macintosh produces
true believers. 

alex


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