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To: JRI who wrote (73841)	10/22/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

OT* John - People who have inadequate knowledge of even recent (last 20 years) of the history of computing often have a hard time seeing the patterns. I was thinking about doing a quiz, something like: 1) At this point in time, NT has been available in the market for 5 years. a) At what point was ANY version of UNIX available in the market for 5 years? b) What approximate unit volume and market percentage in units did UNIX have at that time? c) How long had UNIX been available before it achieved 1% acceptance (in unit terms)? 2) There were two significant base developments for UNIX, one at AT&T and one at Berkeley (BSD). Related to this: a) What were the UNIX wars? b) When did they occur? c) Who, if anyone, won? Extra Credit: How many of the current top 5 selling UNIX products use the same or similar core UNIX technology? Essay discussion: One premise of the original UNIX developers was that the OS source would be portable and available, so that customized kernels and tailored OS development could occur freely. How many of the top 5 selling UNIX products support this concept? Bonus Point: How many different kernels are represented in the top 5 UNIX products, and how likely is an application written for one of these to run without significant modification in any other? Related to this, what is POSIX and does anyone care? 3) SMP and Multi-processor support is often discussed as a strength of UNIX. a) When did each of the current top 5 UNIX products support more than one processor in a system? b) When did NT do so? c) When did DEC RSX-11M do so? d) When did VAX VMS do so? I could go on and on but I don't want to bore the thread with an OT discussion...