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To: ali zayyad who wrote (19138)	12/18/1997 11:18:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Respond to of 42771

Hello ali, > Scott or technical guru on the board. Does this mean I'm not a technical guru? ;-) <g> > A programmer @ MSFT told me that 90% of the programmers > run Windows95 and NT on top of UNIX @ MSFT. I'm not sure that I understand exactly what this means. Does this mean they said that 90% use Windows instead of UNIX? Or did they mean to say that the developers use UNIX? Or that they have a way to run Windows on UNIX? > If this is a prefeered way for programmes and developers why can't > other businessess just see between the lines. MSFT is pushing crapy > technology on to consumers and businesses because of there muscle > now. I'm not sure that I understand the situation clearly enough to answer ... > The workstation I use at work is R6000 and it run IBM AIX on top of > UNIX and I love this system. The R6000 is a very nice machine ... > Thanks Scott C. Lemon