Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 01:22

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In article <DCLu3n.EAK@world.std.com> jimf@world.std.com (jim frost) writes:
>jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
>>In article <DCL9rv.8yA@world.std.com>, jim frost <jimf@world.std.com> wrote:

[stuff cut]

>So it's possible.  Why would anyone do it?  Software.
>
>NT allows you to tap the vast PC software market in a way that no UNIX
>can.  Good, cheap software is *extremely* compelling!

You're of course talking about the intel version of NT right?  How
well do win3.1 programs run on NT/MIPS, NT/Alpha, or NT/PPC?
I would assume not to well.  I'm not going to run my simulation on
some crappy intel chip if I can avoid it.  NT is still young but
its not viable yet and hopefully never because of the lack of
scientific apps.   

>People's attitudes towards NT penetration into the UNIX market are
>highly reminiscent of the way VMS people thought about UNIX in the
>mid-1980's.  UNIX couldn't possibly take over the VMS market, because
>it didn't do all these things.  It turned out that UNIX did do most of
>them, although not always in the same way.  Enterprising software
>developers filled in the holes.  What triggered the change was quite
>simply cost-effectiveness; you could put together a working UNIX
>system for a lot less money than a VMS system (and it was faster to
>boot).  Today VMS is all but a memory.

But VMS is still around in a lot of places.  All of our official
email at work is supposed to go to a VMS machine.  Of course I
forward it to my Linux box.

Ravi

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Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
Date: 1 Aug 1995 01:22:00 GMT
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