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From: zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
Message-ID: <1992Nov26.114204.9783@fasttech.com>
Organization: Fast Technology
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1992 11:42:04 GMT
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In <22947@venera.isi.edu> allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
>Unix has the following going for it.
[ ... deleted ... ]
>A prediction. UNIX will not die. If anything, the existence of NT
>will educate more people about operating systems and cause an increase
>in the number of systems capable of supporting Unix. This will be a
>boon for Unix.
There is one serious flaw in what you say.
You can bet the last dollar you have that when NT is released it will have a
high degree of support for DOS and Windows binaries.
Unless Unix matches this, then the path-of-least-resistance for DOS and
Windoze users will be NT. While I've heard a lot of marketing BS that some
versions of Unix will eventually support Windows 3.1 binaries, I've yet to
see proof.
And until it does, Unix will be completely IRRELEVANT to Windoze users.
People aren't going to scrap their huge investment in DOS and Windoze programs
just to pay 10x the $$$ for inferior Unix versions of their applications.
Finally, $Bill Gates is a very smart businessman. He may well want to kill
OS/2 so badly that he will price NT below $200. And if he does, look out.