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To: DownSouth who wrote (62012)	8/11/1998 8:44:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Downsouth, I thinking you are missing a huge part of an equation here with your statement: Wintel is a ways from being a contender in the high-end Unix market. However, Intel is not so far away as Unix OS systems run on Intel platforms. First you are forgetting a couple of economic issues. First is (let's just say) Solaris starts selling really well for Xeon boxes, guess what Sun LOSES money (beacuse I would put even money that 70% of those sales would have been Sparc based machines a year ago). Second of all, Let me let you in on a BIG part of the stability of commercial UNIX's: SUN OS (Solaris) running a a SUN manufactured box, with SUN written drivers, on SUN certified hardware. DIGITAL UNIX running on DEC ALPHA's, using DEC written drivers on DEC approved hardware. HPUX running on PA-RISC cpus, using HP written drivers and HP approved hardware. Now compare this to: Microsoft Windows NT, Running on ???? CPUs using ????? written drivers on ?????'s hardware.. Which situation do you think is NATURALLY more prone to stability. Steve

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