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To: Scumbria who wrote (93185)	2/15/2000 2:04:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571477

Scumbria, <Sun has one little tiny advantage (the most reliable and trusted operating system and software base in the world.) > I find this to be one of the very hard to understand things for people bred in the semiconductor/hardware industry. I have seen many doomed processor programs over the years - I find this whole spectre of trying to comeup with new instruction sets somewhat saddening. Chuck

To: Scumbria who wrote (93185)	2/15/2000 9:18:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571477

Re: Sun has one little tiny advantage (the most reliable and trusted operating system and software base in the world.) ... Why bring that up? If operating system inertia had been significant factor, Microsoft would have been a money maker. <VBG> Dan