Re: SCO market share

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From: Rick Kelly
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 05:49

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Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org) wrote:

: Neither; it was correcting a misunderstanding about what I originally said.
: If it's a point *against* anything, it's against the proliferation of
: incompatible hardware in the PC market.

An as long as MSDOS and Windows 3.x rule the market there will be a
continuuing flood of strange hardware for the Intel PC market.  As
long as they supply the appropriate MSDOS/Win drivers, they will make
money.

When the 386 first came out, I thought "great!!!", full blown UNIX on the
desktop.

I think that I'd rather have a SPARC now.

-- 

Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com

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Subject: Re: SCO market share
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