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To: Doren who wrote (4215)8/17/1997 6:55:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson   of 213185
 
Doren; I am speaking from the viewpoint of Wintel compatibles versus Apple compatibles. The IBM OS(Warp) still sells in small volume and they make Cyrix CPUs(and others?) and profit on them, but it is tiny compared to the main market of Win95 and Intel CPUs(AMD K6 will make its way, but AMD cannot make enough as they lack capacity.
The older mainfames died a tragic death as the assorted Wintel and others ate their share in the 80s and 90s. They are still made with faster modern CPUs and run the legacy software however modern systems beat them for internet use. A lot of corporate intranets are running on legacy systems, as it was cheaper to do that than buy new, and Netscape made a specialty ofredoing legacies this way. Internally they look like the internet with all stuff of the coporation on line to each other with Netscale browsers on them(mostly, as Netscape is strong here) so you e-mail other employees. A large number have a connection to the real world internet usually through a firewall server to keep hackers out. However a company with funds will not start a new install with one of these legacy systems(unless they want to save $ and buy used/cheap)
Legacy systems are being scrapped as we speak. Their days are numbered(large numbers) and that segment is just a shadow of its past glory when IBM flew high, around 1975 to 1985.
Bill
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