From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 3 10:33:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25310 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 10:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25301 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.6/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA00918; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:14:04 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 20:14:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Bob Willcox cc: chat list Subject: Re: Conclusion to "NT vs. Unix" debate In-Reply-To: <19970903112429.34614@pmr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 06:39:06PM +0300, Narvi wrote: > > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > Conclusions? We don't allow no steenking conclusions here! > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > Motorola. IBM. Hitachi. NEC. Fujitsu, now the world's second largest > > > computer company, and very loud about it. etc. Of course, all of them > > > but Motorola also make WinTel machines. Personally, I think it stupid > > > that Moto and IBM didn't pick up support for NT on CHRP when MS dumped > > > it; they're doing themselves a great disservice. AIX, bad as it is, is > > > better than NT, but "will it run Word?" > > > > Well, the rumour goes that MS wanted 300M for continuing to support PPC in > > future versions. It seems they didn't consider it worth that amount of > > money? > > Would you? I know I certainly wouldn't. :-) > No, I wouldn't. 300M is a whole mountain of chips you have to sell to get it back which you can otherwise spend on developing even better chips. > I had the "opportunity" to run NT on some PPC systems while still at IBM > and I have to say I didn't like it any more on those systems than I do > on Intel systems. I'd bet it's all the same on all platforms. And I am still trying to find a way of buying a Motorola MTX board :-( Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > -- > Bob Willcox Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread > bob@luke.pmr.com to determine which side it is buttered on. > Austin, TX -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" >