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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kash johal who wrote (58861)5/19/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman  Read Replies (1) of 1573375
 
Kash, in 1984, I was invited to a seminar in Seattle featuring UNIX running on a Motorola PC box with some familiar applications including BASIC. After sitting through two hours of hype about how this particular flavor of UNIX would replace PCs and everything else out there, I was invited to test drive a system.

I typed in FOR I = 1 to 100000 : NEXT I : END, pressed ENTER and waited with a stopwatch running. After the stopwatch wound down, I switched to my wristwatch. And after an hour of waiting, I took a taxi to the airport and flew home. Friends wrote later to say that it never did finish my simple loop.

That was a long time ago. For 1999, we have "Linux" and Linux is being hyped as the replacement for MSFT, PCs, and everything we have today.

What goes around comes around. Again and again and again. And most of it is bunk.

Linux today is far better than UNIX was back then. But www.zd.net has reviewed Linux and called it "mediocre" compared to the abundant alternatives. IMHO, the only people who will ever make a buck on Linux will be the guys with pre-IPO shares in Red Hat. To attribute the supposed benefits of Linux as the salvation of AMD (or anyone else) is to ignore history and to create a destiny of repeated mistakes.

Craig
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