Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:10:12 +1100 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A successor to CSRG (was: 4.4BSD) Message-ID: <19990128131012.A27400@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <xzpww2865yz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:22:28PM %2B0100 References: <199901271429.JAA04808@pechter.nws.net> <xzpww2865yz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 05:22:28PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bill Pechter <pechter@monmouth.com> writes: > > > So, SunOS is king then? > > Actually, there's probably more SCO out there. Think of > > McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Hotel Reservation systems... > > Do not underestimate OS/2... A lot of ATMs, POS systems, airport > information systems etc. run OS/2. from memory, in teh early days .. ther was a motorola 68b09e in every cd player and it ran os9 to read teh cd filesystem and to do teh io .. that is to play teh music .. so if head counts equate to supremacy then os9 would be close to teh top and qnx runtime must be a close second. there are far more 'hidden' processors running realtime systems (os9, lynx, qnx, even rtos etc etc) than thier will ever be paople sitting infront of keyboards bashing out the works of shakspear (spelling?) another point ov view .. music cd players, video recorders et al are computers running operating systems with higly customised keyboards -- command input consoles. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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