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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.global-one.no!news1.transpac.net!news5.transpac.net!oden.abc.se!atle!m9418 From: m9418@abc.se (Jonas Bofjall) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 5 Feb 1997 13:59:03 GMT Organization: ABC-Klubben Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5da3n7$nli@oden.abc.se> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <E50rGo.K3n@nonexistent.com> <nLVF2tL@quack.kfu.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: atle.abc.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:155977 comp.os.linux.networking:67176 comp.os.linux.setup:95342 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5853 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2219 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51807 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265470 Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) wrote: > I see the PPC CHiRP platform being the next industry platform of choice. It may be. But we don't know what surprises Intel has up in their sleeves. AMD and Cyrix proved to be constantly behind Intel, but chasing them to lower their prices. And why not the Alpha? If Digital would dump the price on an Alpha, I think they would take over the market before Motorola has made their next PPC. Digital already has big apps, like NT and an x86-emulation that works! > run Office-95, then that's one way. If not, then Sun or someone else > needs to make an office productivity suite for Unix. It is in the The market is opening. We have WordPerfect, StarOffice and AppliXware, but that's just the beginning of it... > But Unix' achiles heel is that its compatability is only at source > level. Each CPU requires its own compiler, and each OS requires its This is nothing unique for Unices. But several platform-independent solutions will show up when computers have the necessary performance to run it. Corel Office Java is already here. // Jonas <job@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]