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To: Mike Milde who wrote (9682)7/26/1998 8:59:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
<UNIX on the desktop? When, exactly, was that ever a goal?>

Since Sun made their OS run on PC hardware.



To: Mike Milde who wrote (9682)7/27/1998 11:38:00 PM
From: DownSouth  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
>UNIX on the desktop? When, exactly, was that ever a goal?

Surely you ask this question in jest. That was SUNW's goal for many, many years. It just that few people noticed the attempt, unless they were directly involved in the tremendous marketing effort that SUNW put on the IT decision makers.

Perhaps that was before your time, huh?