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Re: Future of Unix - comments please



At 14:18 10/17/97 -0500, you wrote:

Doug - 

I agree with you about the state and quality of free 
Unix (don't forget the free BSDs) and GNU software.

But...open microprocessor architectures? It seems to me 
that with Slot 1 and Slot 2 bus interfaces for the 
Pentium II, Intel is taking the same route that IBM 
did with Microchannel. Only this time Intel controls 
the chip! I have read that Intel does not intend even 
to license the bus. I wouldn't call that open.

Best Regards, JohnT
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"Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, 
that machines which had never been finished were 
abandoned in the hands of their makers, because 
new improvements had superceded their utility." 

Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832


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