Messages in this thread | | | From | Tony Nugent <> | Subject | Re: Merced makes things interesting, eh? | Date | Wed, 08 Jul 1998 19:33:26 +1000 |
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On Tue Jul 07 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
> Does this then mean that Linux (being technically superior in some > respects to many major Un*xes) will be in an even better position to > compete with big propriety OSes? I work with PH-UX (PHucking sUX), I > would like to see something like linux instead of it.
The fact that intel's i386 chips are getting faster and multi-processor, and that PC hardware is getting so damn cheap is also a very big factor.
It appears that this decision has been made here in people's minds already... we have a lab full of sparc stations (used by post-grads) that need to be upgraded. They are going to be replaced by P233mmx/128Mb boxes running linux at a fraction of the cost of the hardware/software upgrade to retain the sparcs. (My own PC workstation has just about as much grunt as our ageing sparc mailserver).
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