Messages in this thread | | | Date | 22 Jun 1999 23:38:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, |
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viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 22.06.99 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906220156010.13180-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> Or NT will eventually die. Much more desirable outcome, IMO. It's > definitely inferior design. Remember, every self-appointed UNIX-killer > ate flaming death and UNIX is alive and well. Where is VMS? Where is > OS/2? Where is (spit) MacOS? Exactly. They boast. They suck. They die. > It is that simple. NT will follow them, just give it some time. New > "UNIX-killer" will appear, only to follow the previous ones. Who cares?
Wrt. MacOS:
1. I've never heard it announced as a Unix-killer, 2. It's currently doing just fine, doing record sales, grabbing market share from M$ 3. The designated successor is based on (wait for it) ... Mach+FreeBSD!
Wrt. OS/2:
Its death is a pure marketing effect: IBM didn't really market it.
Wrt. NT:
Interesting enough, when you look at M$'s *technical* documentation, you'll find that they have a number of nice things to say about Unix in general and Linux specifically. Don't tell the marketing guys!
Then again, Unix didn't kill Multics, either ...
MfG Kai
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