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To: Bearded One who wrote (21721)11/24/1998 2:19:00 AM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Bearded One -
I hate to correct you when your posts are generally so sensible, but Compaq is in the Operating Systems business in a big way - they have more people doing that work than Microsoft. The Operating systems are the 2 Tandem products - Integrity ( a high reliability Unix) and the Himalaya nonstop kernel - and the former DEC products for Alpha, OpenVMS and 64 bit Unix. There are by most estimates nearly 5,000 people in the various groups supporting these products, way more than the 3000 developers who do all of microsoft's operating systems.

Partly on account of that work, they understand how much it costs to develop a high quality OS (or even one good enough for a desktop, which evidently doesn't have to be very high quality).

Intel also has developed operating systems, and actually had a pretty good one for many years (RMX).

But it is just a whole lot easier and cheaper to let someone else do it for the mainstream.
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