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Originally posted by ksw
true bigben, but i hope we never have to see that OS chrisies of late 80's early 90's... god even I cant remeber all those ****ingfivethosuandOSes that were competing, about the same useless shit. then came windwos and gave the pc a "standard" for OS:s.
today, who the **** has an machine running Minix or other small brand OSes other than just 4 fun?
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Oh please. Do not put 'standard' and 'microsoft' (or 'windows') in the same sentence. Everyone knows that micro$oft sh*ts on standards to fuel their 'embrace and extend' (aka 'Borg') strategy. Unices on the other hand, always had to stick to standards because of their variety...
And if IBM, Sun, HP, and other mainframe / workstation manufacturers have their own unix variant, that's to provide the end user or admin the best OS for their hardware.
Besides there are only 2 real variants of unix, SystemV and BSD, of which the others are offsprings.
BB2K i'm not sure we'll really see an OS shift. If M$ plays well, and they're able to (in marketing terms), they'll hold their positions for a long long time. Today we hear a lot of propaganda like "Windows is for the desktop, while Linux is for servers"... it will be written in ppl's subconscience. Do not underestimate Mr Gates and his friends.
As for AMD, they're pulling just any marketing trick to prepare ppl for lower MHz on 64bit CPUs. Indeed a 1GHz 64bit CPU kicks some ass, see today's RISC CPUs... But the mass market aint ready to 'get back in time' as they'll have the feeling of.