Re: HELP CISC vs. RISC / UNIX vs. DOS

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From: Rasmus Lerdorf
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1993 17:12

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przemek@rrdbartok.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski) writes:

>One argument that I like is that your mission critical application
>usually generates some data; if so, it is silly not to use network to
>access it. The network necessitates a multitasking OS.

>This of course has nothing to do with the hardware (cisc/risc part of
>your question). In fact, the most elegant solution for mission
>critical dedicated computers is IBM PC compatible running Linux.

Only if your mission critical application can live with network crashes
every now and then.  The networking part of Linux is in my opinion not
nearly reliable enough yet for mission critical applications.

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Subject: Re: HELP CISC vs. RISC / UNIX vs. DOS
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