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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (5117)	8/19/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: John M. Zulauf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Thomas A Watson wrote: > > Any way, follow this amusing link. Do you think > > if the Navy used the new SGI NT boxes they could > > solve the problem. heh, heh, heh To which Alexis Cousein wisely replied: > No, but I wager that SGI would have pointed out that for > some things, a Unix server would be more appropriate Kind of shocking that with the huge pile of O200's the US Post Office bought for handwriting recognition that the Postal service has far better up-time and reliability for their "productivity enhancing" systems that a US capital ship has for it's mission critical ones. Heck the Navy could download for FREE a more stable operating system for the computers the already have installed -- but that's a separate thread. <shiver> CHILLS!!!!! </shiver>

To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (5117)	8/23/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

I have no doubt that the en-gin-ears at SGI would have never ever recommend NT for such an application. SGI has smart engineers with integrity. On the other hand I've successfully run SMP linux on a four headed integraph machine. It was fast and stable. Anyway the point of my comment was, given that in the high end of applications NT is rated by en-gin-ears somewhere between sucks and unsafe at any speed, Does it make sense that SGI can generate any revenue selling NT boxes. Boy doesn't Linus look nice on the cover of Forbes. I'm wondering when Linus will be on the late night talk show circuit garnering mindshare. Well the fifth riches man in knows when this will happen. Cause Linus works for him. How to make money on linux, Applix is cheap and I think it has linus coat tails. Remember, an Intel processor is a terrible thing to infect with a borg virus. Over 7.4 MILLION processors have been disinfected. READ THE LINUX MANIFESTO. find the link in my previous posts.