From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: <4kjd3o$nks@mordred.gatech.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 146942430 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <828207683snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> ,<3160B659.D3B@mcs.com> <4kj4rq$d34@fnnews.fnal.gov> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ organization: Georgia Institute of Technology newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: morphis@fnalv1.fnal.gov wrote: : In article <3160B659.D3B@mcs.com>, Mike Young writes: : >Robert Dewar wrote: : >> : >> Dan Pop said : >> : >> "In my book, one of the main charms is that Unix runs on almost any kind : >> of hardware, from the most expensive to the cheapest PC (currently the : >> Power Mac is the exception, but Apple is actively involved in a Linux : >> port)." : >> : >> That's wrong, Machten, a pretty complete system 5 port, runs fine on : >> a Power Mac. : > : >====== : >Does anyone else find it odd that everything (it seems) runs on a Power : >PC, but not OS/2? : no, OS/2 isn't on PPC for business reasons. You can get OS/2 for the PowerPC, but you must order it directly from IBM. As far as IBM is concerned there's little reason to expend the money or effort to market OS/2 for the PowerPC (since the most popular PowerPC platform is the Power Macintoshes and few Power Mac hardware developpers seemed interested in writing device drivers for Power Mac peripherals for OS/2). : 1)IBM wants to sell its unix on the PPC and would lose some unix sales : if they put OS/2 on it Doubtful. For the most part, OS/2 really is poised as a desktop OS that is more easily maintained by a single user. It runs a wide array of low-cost (relatively speaking) off-the-shelf software. It has some very nice features, but probably wouldn't be applied to the same tasks as AIX would be (at least we use our OS/2 and UNIX boxes for very different uses). : 2) IBM has a limited amt of resources they are willing to put behind : OS/2, and have made the (IMvHO) wise decision to concentrate on intel. : The P6 is a pretty hot little puppy and OS/2 takes good advantage of it. True, and true. Though, to be honest, Intel is beating a dead horse with their new CPUs. It's time to make some radical changes and dispense with backwards compatibility (or, at least, provide a separate compatibility layer for the CPU). : In any case VMS is superiour (sp?) in all ways to UNIX! so there! : (and he quickly leaves stage left) :) I have to admit VMS' RMS is pretty cool. Other than that...