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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
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Date: 5 Feb 1997 13:59:03 GMT
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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]