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From: warwick@cs.uq.edu.au (Warwick Allison)
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Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:59:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, University of Queensland
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root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
>How many operating systems have tens or hundreds of thousands of
>commercial software packages available? The PC running Microsoft.
In searching for optimal solutions, it is often a good approach to try
a large number of random guesses. However, if some fundamental assumption
in your method of generating random guesses is incorrect, someone without
those assumptions can eventually find a superior solution.
That is straight problem solving.
Applying it to Windows & Unix, it means that Unix-based applications can
eventually supercede Windows-based applications, simply because many things
are not possible under Windows. The continuing rise of Free Unix is the
spark that will accelerate this situation.
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Warwick
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