Arthur D. Jerijian (jerijian@sleet.seas.ucla.edu) wrote:
: This is two years after the "LINUX is obsolete" thread in comp.os.minix.
: Look for it in ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/misc/linux_is_obsolete.txt.z
: (or something like that).
: Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?
I like this bit from the "linux_is_obsolete.txt":
" Just for the record, as of about 1 year ago, there were two
versions, one for the PC (360K diskettes) and one for the 286/386 (1.2M).
The PC version was outselling the 286/386 version by 2 to 1. I don't have
figures, but my guess is that the fraction of the 60 million existing PCs
that are 386/486 machines as opposed to 8088/286/680x0 etc is small. Among
students it is even smaller. Making software free, but only for folks
with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept.
Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
- Tanenbaum, Jan 30, 1992
That certainly is an interesting statement isn't it? Before last
Friday it looked like RAM would drop below $12 a meg and 64 megs of ram
in your 166 mhz Pentium didn't seem like such a wild idea afterall.. ;)
Though.. I have no idea what he's talking about when he refers to "GNU".
(was GNU developing their own OS? Is that Hurd?)
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