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To: Tony Viola who wrote (57682)	6/9/1998 7:19:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

thread, in reading about the ftc vote to proceed against intel, i see that there were four commissioners casting ballots. as i am sure you all know, the tally was three "yes" votes and one "no" vote. under the heading of mildly amusing trivia, i think it is worth a chuckle to note that the lone dissenting vote was cast by a fellow named swindle. orson swindle. on a political note, swindle is the commission's lone republican. regards to all, mr.mark

To: Tony Viola who wrote (57682)	6/9/1998 7:24:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, Solaris for x86 has been available for several years now, since Solaris 2.1. It is compiled for x86 chips and runs natively, it is not an "emulator" by any means. It performs very well and makes you wonder about NT when run on the same box. You may however be refering to Suns attempts at creating a 64bit version of Solaris for Merced, which is an emulator, since no Merced silicon exists today. Solaris for x86 is as Sun likes to say "bug level compatible" with the Sparc version. It's a good option when you need UNIX reliability and a "real" vendors support, unlike Linux.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (57682)	6/9/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Native X86 solaris has been around for a while and is probably the most robust Unix on Intel architecture. Sun puts a lot of effort into optimization (for example they have a team tat optimizes drivers for CPQ hardware). Not all solaris apps run on the X86 version - it's getting better but was less than half of the SPARC list last time I checked.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (57682)	6/10/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "Sun has developed an emulator (I guess you'd call it that) they call x86. With it, you can run Sun Solaris (their super version of UNIX) on Intel boxes. " I thought SUN had a native x86 version of Solaris (v 2.5?) that ran directly on Intel boxes (probably with specific hardware configurations) - no emulation required. So, monthly software licenses, huh? This must be the RISC version of the MicroSoft tax! The Workstation Software vendors are in for changing times with x86 workstations. The gravy days may be over. Paul