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To: joe who wrote (24185)	11/6/1998 4:43:00 PM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

joe, please debug this program, seems to be caught in a tight loop. Almost 6 months are up and no new positions, only reiteration: nordby.com o~~~ O

To: joe who wrote (24185)	11/6/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: Tim McGee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

OT: RISC NT and POSIX compliant >>Yes NT will run on your beloved SGI machine!..<< NT dropped support for Power PC a while ago and recently MIPS chips simply due to market demands. Alpha still going but not much sales as a percentage. >>NT = POSIX Compliant.. you did know that didn't you? NT was never POSIX compliant, dropped from the first version for the good reason joe mentioned. Tim

To: joe who wrote (24185)	11/6/1998 7:19:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 45548

Joe, I know, that's why SGI may go bankrupt any day, and from what I understand, the MIPS chip will be ready for the Smithsonium in a few years. Personally, I can't wait till our entire Branch is forced into NT systems. I will love to see UNIX worshippers told they can't practice their religion anymore. It might be worth sticking around just for that. You know, that's prehaps the biggest reason I like NT.. just cuase it will piss off all the old unix farts.. I like unix, but I'm not about to pray at the alter like these guys.. I mean there are guys at the university who are writing software at home in their spare time.... software that they plan to SELL for LINUX!!!!!!.. I hate to tell you, but if I run LINUX it's cause I'm too cheap to buy software.. If I wanna run UNIX at home and I'm not cheap I buy Solaris. Translation: another meaningless attempt by the Gov't to create a standard for UNIX that never got off the ground much, and nobody cares about. True, yet another problem with UNIX.. there are HOW MANY different flavours, all imcompatible in terms of binaries.. Steve