Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:40:05 +0000 ( ) | From | Robbie Stone <> | Subject | Re: *** draft 4 - press release *** |
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On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Simon Kenyon wrote:
:-> :->On 19-Jan-99 Robert Klein wrote: :->> The fact of cross platform support is indeed not confusing. :->> What I wnated to say is, if I go to the average guy and tell him, :->> he will just not understand. If I tell him, 'Linux runs on :->> your PC and your friends Mac,' then he will understand. If I :->> tell him 'Linux runs on PC, PowerMac, UltraSparc, Alpha, ARM, :->> ...' then he will just stop to listen anymore (or read an :->> article). :-> :->so you say it runs on IBM PCs, Apple Macs, Sun servers, SGI servers and :->workstations, DEC servers and workstations, the cool new Corel network computer,... :-> :->then if they stop listening point out that Linux is part of the ABM unoffical :->alliance (Anything But Microsoft) and that Microsoft don't like Linux and are :->actively trying to stop it,... :-> :->then if they stop listening point out that Apple ship Linux, Sun have a :->16processor machine which they are testing Linux on, NASA use a Linux cluster and :->put a Linux box into space, that Fujitsu have a massively parallel Sparc machine :->running Linux, that Titanic was rendered on a Linux (Sparc?) machine farm, that
Alpha actually, and that's a great example, since DreamWorks had a fpu error I believe, and was able to solve it immediately (or something along those lines) by doing the ol' oh..it's GPLed...well lemme tweak the code here, and whallah!
:->Intel demonstated a Quad processor Xeon at it's launch,... :-> :->then if they stop listening walk away, because they are not worth talking to. :-> :->in any case, what would they be doing reading the press release if none of this :->meant anything to them? :->-- :->simon :-> :->- :->To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in :->the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu :->Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ :->
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