LookOUT 2007

[sandrews at andrewscompanies.com]

Not a load of rot.  Linus didn't go playing around until 1991.  At that
point, it was pretty much Microsoft and OS2; and they were both pushing
intel on the hardware side.  Both of them were dog slow compared to DOS
and at that time, everyone thought it just fine if all you did was
connect to a netware box.

During that time, AS400s were thought to be the next big thing because
they weren't the big cost of S390s.  Hell, I had a 9401 series at home
during that period.  It was insanely expensive, but all good RPG
programmers had them, so what the heck.

If it weren't for MS and OS2 pushing Intel to develop faster
microprocessors, the whole thing could have been lost to 390s and minis
connected to dumb terminals.

The agruement that Unix in it's non-linux form existed before that time
is accurate; however, it was a huge cost and few trusted it on x86
hardware at the time; oh yeah, and let's not forget that the 390s and
the AS400s beat the crap out of it in raw performance AND the cost per
transaction related to that performance.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Res
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 5:16 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: LookOUT 2007

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote:

> On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:56:24 (PM) Res wrote:
>
>> Yeah, and what will be the requirment in the next version on 
>> winblows, a supercomputer, and thats just for basics :P
>
> Are you suggesting that we all go back to using 8086 based PC's?

no im talking about like the big muthars in Sandiego SCC :)

> Seriously, Every few years I buy another PC. I then add the older one

Whats the point? many people, especially businesses dont want to do that

you are the type of person Bill Gates has aimed at vista then, he;ll be
happy :)


> If it weren't for MicroSoft virtually forcing hardware developers to
> improve their offerings, we would probably still be stuck with 386's
> and 12mb. of memory. Somebody has got to push the envelope, and

Oh, so micro$oft are responsible for the huge servers in my DC ? LOL
what 
a load of rot.


-- 
Cheers
Res

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