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Article #3135Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:22
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:22
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In <4garmv$bku@nyx.cs.du.edu> kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes: >"TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com> writes: > >>> None of the major personal computer OS were designed to be portable. Not > >> Unix/UNIX combination may be more popular than most of you would >>like to think. Also, virtually any system can be emulated by any other >>systems... (either via software or HW-bridgeboard like stuff). > >I said none of the major OS's were *designed* to be portable. And it was pointed out that you were wrong, using Unix as a counterexample. Unix is by far THE major OS outside the world of personal computing. It was implemented on virtually everything, from micros to supercomputers and is the OS of choice for workstations (and Crays :-). Its installed base is in the 10,000,000 range (mostly workstations and personal computers). If Unix would disappear tomorrow, so would the Internet. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 20 Feb 96 00:22:34 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.824775754@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <4g8008$qdc@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <31278DC2.79A3@home.mysolution.com> <4garmv$bku@nyx.cs.du.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)