Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:42:07 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011129133414.A872-100000@mail.radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111290950370.22795-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ken Bolingbroke wrote: [snip!] > Sun still sells a nice array of desktops. They're not what you'd get for > the office secretary, but they definitely have their place, particularly > in heavy graphic and scientific applications. These are, and always have > been, even before the advent of Windows 1.0, single-user desktop systems. > That it ran the multi-user UNIX OS was pretty much irrevelant. The use of a multiuser operating system is very relevant. A multiuser operating system must unquestionably be very well suited to multitasking. There is no such thing as "unitasking" anymore, perhaps with the exception of DOS. Users now take multitasking on their "single user" machines for granted, and with good reason. Unix, being a multiuser system, is extremely well suited to multitasking. Contrary to what Anthony Atkielski thinks, this also makes it very suited to run a single user *multitasking* desktop machine. As Ken points out, Unix machines still have their place in heavy graphics and scientific applications, and it is due in large part to the superior ability of Unix to multitask. - Marco Radzinschi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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