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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 01:31:21 GMT
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In article <4seo88$fqd@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>If you look at the directions of the computer industry, the Unix market
>is shrinking (not in real numbers, in percentage), while the Windows
>& Windows/NT market is growing.

A recent projection by some magazine (I forget which one, sorry) says that
Unix will continue to grow its market share for the next ten years, more
rapidly than Windows/NT will grow its market share over the same period of
time.

This was limited to the server market, I believe.

For the individual desktop user, Windows is the way to go, and has been for
quite a while.  The Mac might still have a chance -- with decent networking,
it's an ideal platform for an end-user Web browser application -- but unix
isn't even in the running.

Not that that means unix will disappear.  To some degree, who *cares* if
millions of users are using Windows, and not *nix?  There will continue to
be those who use a unix-like OS, for research, for hacking, to have the same
OS on their desktop or laptop as they do on the big server in the office,
etc.