From: Nesta Stubbs <nesta@nesta.pr.mcs.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 95 13:27:18 PDT
To: Phil Fraering <pgf@tyrell.net>
Subject: Re: Unix not the Only Place for "Vanguard" Applications
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On Sat, 15 Jul 1995, Phil Fraering wrote:

>    Frankly, Unix fragmented into a bunch of pieces. Maybe it was because of
>    the USL-Novell-AT&T-Sun-Unix International-etc. battles (I don't even
>    recollect who was who in this battle). Maybe it was the News vs. X vs.
>    OpenLook vs. NeXTStep vs. etc. user interface battles.
> 
> Well, it looks like there will be a major Unix mainstream again
> with two branches capable of more-or-less running each other's
> binaries without too much pain: FreeBSD and Linux.
>
My sentiments in a way, you'll see some higher end PC users moving to 
this, plus the usual gammut of teenage hackers, like I was.
 
>    In any case, I expect Windows (and Windows NT) will take an ever-increasing
>    share of the market for at least the next several years. I'm hardly alone
>    in this expectation.
> 
> BTW, I hear Linux can now run Windows 3.1 in its DOS box.
> 
not completely, it can load it and some apps if you run it like you used 
to have to on a 286.  WINE is far from complete.  The thing is some major 
software compnies are actually taking initiative and making lInux native 
apps, like Wordperfect is coming out in Fall, and Matlab and Mathematica 
are either here already, or will be here in a month or so.  Alot fo 
commercial databases are coming to Linux too.

BUT, please PLEASE, let's not let this turn into a advocacy war, I hang 
out on those groups myself and get enough of them there, don't need it 
here.  I think we're all intelligent enough to realize that both platform 
bases have advantages and disadvantages.  I personally get a woody form 
anything that flips bits so I'm not about to argue.


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