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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (18668)	4/21/1998 3:04:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 24154

The issue is more complicated than whether or not someone can write an Operating System for the Pentium. Intel certainly could write a new operating system. Or, they could just take Linux (the Unix that runs on PC's), add a bunch of stuff to it, and push that. To succeed, an operating system needs applications which run on it. Microsoft controls the PC applications market. Will a version of Excel, Outlook, Word, Money, SQL Server, etc.. ever run on anything but Windows? No. Will Compaq or Dell sell PC's with Linux on it? Or any OS that Intel might push? The way the PC market seems to be, Compaq and Dell would be too afraid of incurring Microsoft's wrath to do that. After all, Dell doesn't put the most popular software application of all time (Netscape Navigator) on their PC's. Basically, I think Intel's power in the market isn't such that they could just arbitrarily come out with a new OS. What they could do is tune their chips to run Linux or Java better-- basically aid already competing OS's indirectly. But it won't be very much help.

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